Hank Williams

When a friend emailed me the announcement by the Pulitzer Prize Board today of its 2010 awards, I was delighted to read that the board had given a posthumous Special Award, for lifetime achievement as a musician, to Hank Williams. Mr. Williams died in 1953 at age 29. Among the many country music standards that he wrote and sung, the board cited in particular "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Cold Cold Heart," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," and "Jambalaya."