The Pulitzer Prizes: 10 Forgotten Winning Novels

You would think winning a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction would ensure an enduring literary legacy. Not always – a number of Pulitzer-winning books are out-of-print. With this year’s announcement just a few days away, AbeBooks.com has compiled a list of forgotten winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel as the award was known prior to 1948.

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, or Novel, has been awarded annually, save a few vacant years, since 1918. It’s been claimed by many legends, including Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and John Steinbeck. However, let’s remember some of the others. Our list of 10 forgotten Pulitzer Prize-winning novels fading into obscurity is based upon sales and searches on AbeBooks.com over the past 12 months.

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