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- 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.
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) Harper Lee. 981 votes. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature.
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Steinbeck. 370 votes. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work.
- The Age of Innocence (1921) Edith Wharton. 137 votes. The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London.
- All the Light We Cannot See (2015) Anthony Doerr. 300 votes. More All the Light We Cannot See. #72 of 154 on The Greatest American Novels. #6 of 40 on The Best Novels About World War 2.
- 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.
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.
The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917. In his will, Pulitzer prescribed four awards in journalism, four in books and drama, one for education, and five traveling scholarships.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 21, 2023 · List of all Pulitzer prize winners for fiction. Includes winning authors and book titles. To date only John Updike and William Faulkner have won twice.
List of current and past Pulitzer categories in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music. Includes years each category has existed.
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