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Columbia University Secretary Frank D. Fackenthal wrote to Sinclair Lewis a few days before the 1926 Pulitzer Prizes were to be announced to congratulate him on winning the Novel prize for Arrowsmith. On May 6, three days after the announcement, Lewis refused the prize and told the world why. (His rejection letter is below.)
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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one ...
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Joshua Cohen. 2023. Demon Copperhead. Barbara Kingsolver. Trust. Hernan Diaz. * Work published and prize awarded posthumously. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by J.E. Luebering. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Pulitzer Prize for fiction is awarded every year by Columbia ...
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Jul 9, 2012 · July 9, 2012. On April 16, 2012, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced that it would award no Pulitzer for fiction in 2012. This was, to say the least, surprising and upsetting to any number of ...
But from time to time there are mutterings; there were mutterings in 1926 when Sinclair Lewis refused to accept the prize for his novel Arrowsmith, and again this year when there was evidently a ...
May 8, 1974 · Pulitzer Prize jurors Prof Benjamin DeMott, Elizabeth Hardwick and Alfred Kazin express distress and bewilderment that Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, unanimous recommendation for ...
A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal. Same Bed Different Dreams, by Ed Park (Random House)
