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  1. www.pulitzer.org › prize-winners-by-category › 219Fiction - The Pulitzer Prizes

    Prize Winners by Year Prize Winners by Category Explore Lists Fiction For distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

    • 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie. A sequel to the novel The Big Sky, Dick Summers returns to the West to guide settlers on a journey across the frontier to Oregon.
    • 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter. Sayward Luckett and her family of American pioneers struggle to till and shape their plot of wilderness into civilization in the 19th century.
    • 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. A mutiny unfolds aboard a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific seas during World War II, highlighting the moral dilemmas of war.
    • 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. A Cuban fisherman navigates the gulf stream, killing and ultimately losing a giant Marlin.
  2. Four authors have won two prizes each in the Fiction category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead . Because the award is for books published in the preceding calendar year, the "Year" column links to the preceding year in literature. 1910s to 1970s. 1980s to 2020s.

  3. May 6, 2024 · May 6, 2024. Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of history, memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction and...

    • To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee.
    • Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides.
    • The Road Cormac McCarthy.
    • The Color Purple Alice Walker.
  4. Colson Whitehead is the first person to win a Pulitzer Prize for consecutive books: his novels The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019). (more) winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction , The Pulitzer Prize for fiction is awarded every year by Columbia University , New York City , for outstanding achievement in fiction.

  5. May 3, 2017 · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the most prestigious awards in American letters. Established by legendary newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it has been awarded to authors since...

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