Sully Prudhomme elected to the Académie française in 1881. Another distinction, "Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur", was to follow in 1895. After, "Le Bonheur", Prudhomme turned from poetry to write essays on aesthetics and philosophy. He published two important essays: "L'Expression dans les beaux-arts" (1884) and "Réflexions sur l'art des vers" (1892), a series of articles on Blaise Pascal in "La Revue des Deux Mondes" (1890), and an article on free will ("La Psychologie du Libre-Arbitre", 1906) in the "Revue de métaphysique et de morale". The first writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (given "in special recognition of his poetic
Sandra Sully (songwriter) Sandra Sully (songwriter) Sandra Sully is a former member of the all-girl band from the 1970s The Love Machine and a songwriter. In the very diverse landscape of music genres of the 1970s, The Love Machine was an all-girl band "specialized" mainly on funk music. The members of the band were Bernice Gibbons, Kathy Bradley, Mary Hopkins, Paulette Gibson, Renee Gentry, Sandra Sully and Sheila Dean. Sandra Sully co-wrote Bobby Womack's "If You Think You're Lonely Now". In 2006 she was credited as a co-writer of Mariah Carey's Grammy Award–winning song "We Belong Together" which incorporated part of "If You're