Jett Williams Accepts Pulitzer Prize Award for Father Hank Williams

On Monday, May 24, Jett Williams accepted the Pulitzer Prize Award for her father, Hank Williams, Sr., at the Pulitzer Prize Award luncheon at Columbia University.
 
The award celebrates Hank Williams’ “craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming Country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life."
 
"Hank Williams has always been in a class all his own as the Shakespeare of ‘the common man,’ whom he touched so deeply and for so long with his lyrical genius,” Jett Williams said. “To be so honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board puts my dad in the company of those who have grown to appreciate and now recognize his incredible influence and talent. To hear the strains of ‘Hey Good Lookin' ringing throughout the rotunda at Columbia University as we exited the event would give anyone pause -- it certainly did me.”
 
Hank Williams, Jr., was unable to attend the event and instead, sent Carolyn Tate, Vice President, Museum Services, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, to represent him at the event.