from National Public Radio

And The Pulitzer For Forgotten Fiction Goes To… 

 

Here’s a list of Pulitzer novels we’ve forgotten. Add your own forgotten fiction in the comment field below — or tell us what we’ve missed.

Our Unscientific List Of Least-Known Fiction Winners

 

  • His Family by Ernest Poole, 1918
  • Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield, 1927
  • Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin, 1929
  • Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge, 1930
  • Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes, 1931
  • The Store by T.S. Stribling, 1933
  • Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller, 1934
  • Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson, 1935
  • Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis, 1936
  • In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow, 1942
  • Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin, 1944
  • Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens, 1949
  • The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, 1950
  • The Town by Conrad Richter, 1951
  • The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor, 1959
  • The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor, 1962
  • Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson, 1978

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