- Edwin O'Connor
Edwin O'Connor (29 July 1918 - 23 March 1968) was an American journalist and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for "The Edge of Sadness" (1961). O'Connor was a radio personality, journalist, and novelist, originally from Rhode Island who spent most of his professional life in and around Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Notre Dame and afterward served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. - Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her critically acclaimed novel "The Color Purple". - Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia. He won both the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Lannan Foundation Grant for his first book, "Lost in the City", a collection of short stories on the African American working class of the 20th century Washington, … - Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. - Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks (born 1955) is an Pulitzer Prize-winning, Australian-American journalist and author. - Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias is a contemporary Indian American author based in New York City. - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir "A Moveable Feast." He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. - Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialog, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels "The Bluest Eye", "Song of Solomon", and "Beloved", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. - Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. - Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day" and "The Lay of the Land", and the widely anthologized story collection "Rock Springs". - Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", her only major work to date. - Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson (born 1947) is an American author. She was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A. in 1966. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 1977. Her first novel, "Housekeeping" (1980), won a PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. - Peter Taylor
Peter Hillsman Taylor (January 8, 1917 - November 2, 1994) was an American short-story writer and novelist. Born to a wealthy Nashville family in Trenton, Tennessee, Taylor spent his early childhood between in Nashville and St. Louis until his father, an attorney, moved his practice to Memphis in 1936. Taylor enrolled at Rhodes College in 1936, studying under the critic Allen Tate. - William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. Faulkner's writing is often criticized as being dense, meandering and difficult to understand due to his heavy use of such literary techniques as symbolism, allegory, multiple narrators and points of view, non-linear narrative, … - Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel "The Stone Diaries", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award - James Agee
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, "A Death in the Family" (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. - John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ("Rabbit, Run"; "Rabbit Redux"; "Rabbit Is Rich"; "Rabbit At Rest"; and "Rabbit Remembered"). "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest" both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, … - Wallace Stegner
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers." - Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame for the 1959 collection "Goodbye, Columbus", grabbed headlines with his 1969 bestseller "Portnoy's Complaint", and has continued to write noted literary works, many of which featured his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels started with "The Ghost Writer" in 1979, … - Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from Chicago, his adopted city, … - Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tyler grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated at age nineteen from Duke University, and completed graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a librarian and bibliographer before moving to Maryland. In 1963, Tyler married Iranian psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi, with whom she had two daughters, … - Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He studied writing at City College of New York and practiced various professions before taking up writing full time. His first novel, "Our House in the Last World", was published in 1983 and received the 1985 Rome Prize, … - Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer. - Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel "Lonesome Dove", a sweeping historical epic that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana. It was adapted into a hit television miniseries. Much of his other fiction is also set in the "old west" or contemporary Texas. - John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 - March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel "A Confederacy of Dunces". Toole's novel remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of "A Confederacy of Dunces" to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. - Jeffrey Eugenides
His first novel, The Virgin Suicides , published in 1993, has been translated into 15 languages and made into a feature film. His second novel, Middlesex , received the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, France's Prix Medici, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His latest book, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro , was published in 2008. - Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 - May 5, 1988) was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as an airborne infantry officer in the Korean War. Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s, … - Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty (b. April 13 1909, Jackson, Mississippi - d. July 23 2001, Jackson, Mississippi) was an award-winning author and photographer who wrote about the American South. Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi and lived a significant portion of her life in the city's Belhaven neighborhood, where her home has been preserved. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women (now called Mississippi University for Women), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, … - Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American writer, best known for his 1998 novel "The Hours", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. - Richard Russo
Richard Russo (born July 15 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a B.A. (1967), a M.F.A. (1980), and a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Arizona. His novel "Empire Falls", published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written four other novels: "Mohawk", "The Risk Pool", "Nobody's Fool", and "Straight Man", … - E. Annie Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx (pronounced) (born August 22, 1935) is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, "The Shipping News" (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005. - Shirley Ann Grau
Shirley Ann Grau (born July 8, 1929) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer. Born in New Orleans, her work is set in the Deep South and deals primarily with the sad plight of unhappy rich people. She spent much of her childhood in rural Alabama with her mother. She graduated in 1950 from Newcomb College of Tulane University. Her 1964 saga, "The Keepers of the House" was awarded the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. - John Cheever
John Cheever (May 27, 1912-June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born. Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, … - MacKinlay Kantor
MacKinlay Kantor was an American novelist and screenwriter who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his novel "Andersonville". Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa. He published his first poem at the age of 17, and at 18 he won a state story writing contest. His first novel, "Diversey", was about Chicago gangsters and was written in 1928, when the subject matter was contemporary. - Conrad Richter
Conrad Michael Richter (October 13 1890-October 30 1968) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier. - Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie (born September 3, 1926) is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel "Foreign Affairs". Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books. Her first novel was "Love and Friendship" (1962), followed by "The Nowhere City" in 1965 (about Los Angeles, California, where Lurie lived from 1957 to 1961). - A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. (January 13 1901 - 1991) was an American novelist, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his "The Way West". The author's full name was Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr., but he called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram "was a sissy name." - N. Scott Momaday
Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) is a Native American (Kiowa) writer. He is the son of the writer Natachee Scott Momaday and the painter Al Momaday, and was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States. His novel "House Made of Dawn" led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. He was also featured in the Ken Burns and Stephen Ives' documentary, "The West", … - William Styron
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11 1925 - November 1 2006) was an eminent American novelist and essayist. Before the publication of his memoir "Darkness Visible" in 1990, Styron was best known for his novels which included * "Lie Down in Darkness" (1951), which he wrote at age 25; * "The Confessions of Nat Turner" (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt; and * "Sophie's Choice" (1979), … - Robert Lewis Taylor
Robert Lewis Taylor (24 September 1912 - 30 September 1998) was an American author and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Taylor was born in Carbondale, Illinois and attended Southern Illinois University, which now houses his papers. After college, he became a journalist and won awards for reporting. In 1939, he became a writer for "The New Yorker" magazine as an author of biographical sketches.
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