To get a better idea of how toxic rat poisons are for different birds of prey, a team of scientists led by Philippe Thomas from Environment Canada decided to analyze published data on rat poisoning in birds.
Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison born 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, is perhaps the most celebrated contemporary American novelist. Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies of displacement and slavery that have been bequeathed to the African-American community.
Who is first person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in poetry? Sylvia Plath is the first and only person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Plath received an award for an anthology of her work, The Collected Poems (Harper & Ro â¦ w), in 1982, nineteen years after her death by suicide.n 1935, Audrey Wurdemann became the youngest person to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, at age 24, for her collection Bright Ambush.