Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction
Set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and often referred to as the American epic, the romance novel Gone With the Wind's success garnered the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this author.
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
Poet of New England rural life and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943).
Who is Robert Frost?
This author won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times, for Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), and Long Day's Journey into Night (1957).
Who is Eugene O'Neill?
The American author of Beloved and recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
The author of Fire Down Below, Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, The Inheritors, and The Lord of the Flies.
Who is William Golding?
The American author who moved to rural Florida where she wrote short stories and novels about the rural life including The Yearling, for which she won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Who is Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings?
The two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for John Brown's Body (1929) and Western Star (1944).
Who is Stephen Vincent Benet?
The recipient of the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Men in White.
Who is Sidney Kingsley?
The French writer whom the Nobel committee considered an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization" and who received the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The nineteenth-century British author whose novels of manners include Shirley and Villette and who wrote her most famous work, Jane Eyre, under the gender-ambiguous nom de plume Currer Bell.
The early twentieth-century American author of The House of Mirth, The Marne, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, the 1921 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Who is Edith Wharton?
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938 for her poetry collection Cold Morning Sky.
Who is Marya Zaturenska?
The recipients of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their three-act comedy You Can't Take It With You.
Who are Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman?
The Romanian-born German poet and novelist who received the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature for her work, including especially The Hunger Angel, which "depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
The twentieth-century American author whose works include Intruder in the Dust, The Reivers, The Sound and the Fury, and Light in August.
Who is William Faulkner?
The playwright and novelist who received the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, one in 1938 for Our Town and one in 1943 for his three-part allegory entitled The Skin of our Teeth.
Who is Thornton Wilder?
The poet and dramatist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry with Conquistador (1933) and Collected Poems 1917-1952 (1953), and also won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for J.B. (1959).
Who is Archibald MacLeish?
The American novelist and playwright whose play Alison's House, inspired by Emily Dickinson's life, earned her the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Who is Susan Glaspell?
While the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Mario Vargas Llosa, a Latin American author known for his politically charged fiction, the 1982 Nobel went to this author, known as an exemplar of magical realism.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
The nineteenth-century British author of The Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, and A Tale of Two Cities.
Who is Charles Dickens?
The recipient of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Good Earth.
Who is Pearl S. Buck?
The three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry including the 1922 Prize for his 1921 anthology Collected Poems, along with The Man Who Died Twice (1925) and Tristram (1928).
Who is Edwin Arlington Robinson?
The only year in which there was no award for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama between 1918 and 1937.
What is 1919?
The French playwright, novelist, and exponent of existentialism who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964.
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
The twentieth-century British-Indian author of several award-winning novels, including the controversial The Satanic Verses, and whose first major work, Midnight's Children, has recently been made into a 2013 Canadian best picture-nominated film.
Who is Salman Rushdie?