Awards: Pulitzer Prize Winners
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The Pulitzer Prizes were established in 1917 with an
endowment from Joseph Pulitzer, an American newspaper publisher, to
Columbia University to recognize significant achievements in journalism,
letters, drama and music. Prizes in letters are awarded in the categories
of fiction, general nonfiction, history, poetry and
biography/autobiography.
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TITLE & AUTHOR
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SYNOPSIS
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Angela's Ashes
MCCOURT, F |
Frank McCourt tells the story of his poverty-stricken
childhood years after his family returned to the slums of Limerick,
Ireland.
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Beloved*
MORRISON, T |
In post-Civil War Ohio, the past continues to haunt the
ex-slave Sethe, and the surviving members of her family.
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Color Purple
WALKER, A
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A triumphant novel of a black woman's life in the South.
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Confessions Of Nat Turner
STYRON, W
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A 25th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel based on the true story of an abortive slave rebellion
in 1831 gives a chilling account of a noble man's moral decline.
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House Made Of Dawn
MOMADAY, N |
Abel is a young Native American balanced on the edge of
two worlds and about to fall. Home from WW II, he is caught between his
family's traditions and the lure of the modern world.
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Killer Angels
SHAARA, M |
A gripping novel of the four days of the Battle of
Gettysburg, as seen by the members of the Union and Confederate.
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Old Man And The Sea
HEMINGWAY, E
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The tragic tale of a Cuban fisherman and the giant
marlin he kills and loses.
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Optimist's Daughter
WELTY, E |
Laurel Hand comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her
father dies after surgery. She returns to her former Mississippi home and
stays a few days after the funeral. In a night alone in the house she grew
up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better
understanding of it and of herself and her parents. |
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Thousand Acres
SMILEY, J |
When an Iowa patriarch decides to turn over his thriving
farm to his three daughters, he sets off a series of tragic events that
will eventually rip apart his family. |
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Winds Of War
WOUK, H |
Follows the various members of the Henry family as they
become involved in the events preceding America's involvement in World War
II, capturing all the drama, romance, heroism and tragedy of WW II.
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