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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)
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An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic.
Many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Nelson Harding is the only person to have received a prize in two consecutive years, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1927 and 1928. American poet Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize four times from 1924 to 1943.
The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history of the United States.
- Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper) A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.
- Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books) A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.
- The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books)
- The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination.
Mar 30, 2020 · The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes are generally announced each April, but any time is a good time to look back on all of the novels that claimed the honor before. Here is a complete list of the Pulitzer Prize winners for Fiction. Related: 35 Must-Read Modern Classics. 1940s. 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener.
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Pulitzer Prize. Joseph Pulitzer, a renowned journalist, established this award in 1917. Since 1984 Pulitzer winners have received their prizes from the president of Columbia University at a luncheon in May in the rotunda of the Low Library in the presence of family members, professional associates, board members, and the faculty of the School ...
