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The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year after its publication, and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. [2] [3] A survey of writers and literary critics compiled by The New York Times ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006. [4] It was adapted as a 1998 movie of the same name, starring Oprah Winfrey.
James Albert Michener (/ ˈ m ɪ tʃ ə n ər / or / ˈ m ɪ tʃ n ər /; [2] February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history.
Lee Bollinger awards the 2003 Pulitzer Prize to Jeffrey Eugenides on May 30, 2003. In 2003, Middlesex was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [60] The Pulitzer Board [note 8] wrote in their report that Middlesex is a "vastly realized, multi-generational novel as highspirited as it is intelligent . . . Like the masks of Greek drama ...
The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [5] Judges of the prize called the novel "a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption." [6] It is Whitehead's second win, making him the fourth writer in history to ...
Aspects of this fictional novel are inspired by historical events. The jewel-bearing plant is based on a real factory in Turtle Mountain where mostly women were employed. [ 17 ] While an attempt in 1955 to unionize failed, the workers succeeded in their demand for higher pay and better working conditions.
Chabon's historical fiction novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" won not only the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001, but the New York Society Book Award and the Bay Area Book ...
Known for her books like "O Pioneers!," "My Antonia," and the Pulitzer Prize winner "One of Ours," Cather paved her way as a preeminent author of modernist fiction focusing on the Great Plains of ...
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.