Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

female, deceased (1937) (New York, New York, United States)
design, American, Short story writer, expatriate, Autodidact, novelist…PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 - August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

female, deceased (1953) (St. Augustine, Florida, United States)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, Florida writer, Orange Lake, cracker, cross creek…O. Henry Award winner, pulitzer prize, the yearling, PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner, graduated from the University of Wisconsin
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work,...
Willa Cather

Willa Cather

female, deceased (1947)
My Ántonia, author, death comes for the archbishop, from Winchester, Virginia, PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner, writer…The Song of the Lark, from the United States, received the Pulitzer Prize
Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of U.S. life...
Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington

male, deceased (1946) (Indianapolis, Indiana, United States)
From Indianapolis, Indiana, Nassau Literary Magazine, Princeton University alumni, Princeton Triangle Club, Princeton University, growth…PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner, The Two Vanrevels, the magnificent ambersons, pulitzer prize, The Magnificent Ambersons writer
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels "The Magnificent Ambersons" and...
Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber

female, deceased (1968) (Easton, Connecticut, United States)
from New York City, novelist, writer, Jewish American, Playwright, broadway musical…PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner
Edna Ferber (August 15 1885 - April 16 1968), was an American novelist, author and playwright. Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan (in...
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

male, deceased (1968)
From Salinas, California, Cinema of the United States, Academy Award for Best Story, Dust Bowl, nomination for Best Story, Stanford University alumni…The Grapes of Wrath, PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner, The Pearl, Nobel Prize for Literature, pulitzer prize
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A...
Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

male, deceased (1951)
short-story, atheist, Yale University alumni, Minnesota writer, nobel prize in literature, novelist…PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner
Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in...
Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow

female, deceased (1945)
novelist, pulitzer prize, American, Southern United States, From Richmond, Virginia, memoirist…PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia....
Louis Bromfield

Louis Bromfield

male, deceased (1956)
Democrat, Protestant, Légion d'honneur recipient, From Mansfield, Ohio, American Field Service, PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner…The Rains Came, The Green Bay Tree, pulitzer prize, The Rains of Ranchipur writer, The Rains Came writer
Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 - March 18, 1956) is one of Mansfield, Ohio's most famous natives, a man who became internationally renowned...
Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck

female, deceased (1973)
Philadelphia writer, American historical novelist, American expatriate in China, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, Non-Chinese known by Chinese names…PulitzerPrizefortheNovelwinner, Nobel Prize
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker;) (June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973), was a...