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It was a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1938. An article in The New Yorker decades later called the book the "best-wrought fictional monument to the nation's Protestant elite that we know of."
- John P. Marquand
- 1937
Feb 17, 2022 · Did The Right Book Win? The Late George Apley is an amusing satirical biography, but a better choice for the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 would have been Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston or Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
George Apley helped Marquand to earn a Pulitzer prize and is considered the better of his several novels, usually comic about life among the rich Bostonians. John Marquand did not grow up rich, but he knew New England and via a scholarship he got to mix with ‘his betters’ at Harvard.
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- John P. Marquand
Raymond Sprigle of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For his series of articles, supported by photostats of the essential documents, exposing the one-time membership of Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan.
Quick Reference. Novel by J. P. Marquand, published in 1937 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize. A dramatization by Marquand and George S. Kaufman was produced in 1944 and published in 1945.
A modern classic restored to print -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that charts the diminishing fortunes of a distinguished Boston family in the early years of the 20th century.
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In The Late George Apley, Marquand's portrayal of the stultified protagonist demonstrates how early twentieth-century Boston's caste system defeats even the well-intentioned members of the...
