Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (through 1947), and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (after 1947).
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House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
5 stars
"There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very …
Phil in SF says: 1969 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
This collection represents the best of Jean Stafford's singular contribution to the art of the short story.
It is well …
Phil in SF says: 1970 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
4 stars
In the unfolding drama of the story of America, there are few literary milestones which point the way toward understanding …
Phil in SF says: 1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
"It is easy to praise Eudora Welty," as Robert Penn Warren has written, "but it is not so easy to …
Phil in SF says: 1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
July 1863. All that month there is heat and wild rain. The Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. …
Phil in SF says: 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
For many years Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charles Citrine were the best of friends—Humboldt a grand erratic figure, a great …
Phil in SF says: 1976 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
In his new collection, Elbow Room, McPherson's gift for characterization and his mastery of dialogue have matured. These twelve …
Phil in SF says: 1978 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Here are the collected stories of one of America's greatest writers: the best of the matchlessly brilliant short fiction that …
Phil in SF says: 1979 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
The execution is what the public remembers: on January 17, 1977, a firing squad at Utah State Prison put an …
Phil in SF says: 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
4 stars
"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large …
Phil in SF says: 1981 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Rabbit, #3)
The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has …
Phil in SF says: 1982 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
In Meridian, Alice Walker wrote the classic novel of the civil rights movement. Her new novel goes back to the …
Phil in SF says: 1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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Ironweed by William Kennedy (Albany Cycle, #3)
By 1938, Francis Phelan, whose gift of gab has always broken his fall, is a stumblebum, sleeping in missions and …
Phil in SF says: 1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
When was the last time you read a novel whose heroine was "…fifty-four years old, small, plain, and unmarried – …
Phil in SF says: 1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
5 stars
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major noel at last …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
