"It was a dark and stormy night." I think that received the first award given for 'purple prose'.

…think his content boring as hell, but as a writer, I can’t fault his command of language. There was never any purple prose in his wrenching writing. He was brief, terse, and to the point. For some reason, a helluve lot of literary writers think that…
What Goes into an Award-Winning Essay — According to Medium
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Oct 30, 2021
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"It was a dark and stormy night." I think that received the first award given for 'purple prose'.
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Rel. Studies, Creative Writing… Social liberal/fiscal conservative, occasional writer- profile pic- 6-yr-old coal minor 1910-flow with the Tao, all will be well
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