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Pulitzer Prizes
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The prize is given for "distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." For more information, including previous winners and finalists, visit the official Pulitzer Prizes website.
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2012 No award for fiction in 2012. | ||
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2011 Egan, Jennifer A Visit from the Goon Squad Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem. 2010 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2010 Harding, Paul Tinkers On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's throughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve. 2009 Adult Fiction Book HARDING | |
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2009 Strout, Elizabeth Olive Kitteridge The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son. 2008 Adult Fiction Book STROUT | |
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2008 Diaz, Junot The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. 2007 Adult Fiction Book DAZ | |
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2007 McCarthy, Cormac The Road In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. 250,000 first printing. 2006 Adult Fiction Book MCCARTH | |
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2006 Brooks, Geraldine March In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences. 2005 Adult Fiction Book BROOKS | |
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2005 Robinson, Marilynne Gilead As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets. 2004 Adult Fiction | |
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2004 Jones, Edward P. The Known World When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery. 2003 Adult Fiction | |
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2003 Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. 2002 Adult Fiction | |
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2002 Russo, Richard Empire Falls Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy. 2001 Adult Fiction | |
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