Tuesday, April 21, 2009

And the Pulitzer tor Forgotten Fiction Goes to . . .

From NPR's All Things Considered:

"Unscientific List Of Least-Known Fiction Winners" included:

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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