This imagined scene shows Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) and a fellow prisoner splitting logs and discussing their “crimes.” Bill Mauldin won his second Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for this cartoon in which he sharply criticizes the Soviet Union for not allowing Pasternak to travel to accept his Nobel Prize for literature. Perhaps best known for his World War II cartoons, Mauldin went on to produce many cartoons championing the oppressed, particularly those being deprived of their civil rights.