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Pulitzer On The Road. Prize Winners by YearPrize Winners by CategoryExplore Lists. Fiction. For distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
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- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
Four writers to date have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction multiple times, one nominally in the novel category and two in the general fiction category. Ernest Hemingway was selected by the 1941 and 1953 juries, but the former was overturned with no award given that year.
- 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.
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
Current and historical winners of the Pulitzer Prize, with links to further information at BookBrowse.
