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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

American award for distinguished works of fiction, since 1948

Memorial Pages

21 memorial pages

Family Tree

Memorial

N. Scott Momaday

02/27/1934 – 01/24/2024

89 years

Kiowa author and academic

Santa Fe

Family Tree

Memorial

Cormac McCarthy

07/20/1933 – 06/13/2023

89 years

American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Santa Fe

Memorial

Larry McMurtry

06/03/1936 – 03/25/2021

84 years

American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

Archer City

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Memorial

Shirley Ann Grau

07/08/1929 – 08/03/2020

91 years

American writer

Kenner

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Memorial

Herman Wouk

05/27/1915 – 05/17/2019

103 years

American writer

Palm Springs

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Memorial

Philip Roth

03/19/1933 – 05/22/2018

85 years

American novelist

Manhattan

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Memorial

James Alan McPherson

09/16/1943 – 07/27/2016

72 years

Iowa City

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Family Tree

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Harper Lee

04/28/1926 – 02/19/2016

89 years

American novelist

Monroeville

Memorial

Oscar Hijuelos

08/24/1951 – 10/12/2013

62 years

American novelist

New York City

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Family Tree

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John Updike

03/18/1932 – 01/27/2009

76 years

American novelist, poet

Danvers

Family Tree

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Norman Mailer

01/31/1923 – 11/10/2007

84 years

American writer

New York City

Memorial

William Styron

06/11/1925 – 11/01/2006

81 years

American novelist and essayist

Martha's Vineyard

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Family Tree

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Saul Bellow

06/10/1915 – 04/05/2005

89 years

Canadian-American writer

Brookline

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Carol Shields

06/02/1935 – 07/16/2003

68 years

American/Canadian author

Victoria

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Eudora Welty

04/13/1909 – 07/23/2001

92 years

American short story writer, novelist and photographer

Jackson

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Memorial

Allen Drury

09/02/1918 – 09/02/1998

80 years

Tiburon

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Katherine Anne Porter

05/15/1890 – 09/18/1980

90 years

Silver Spring

Family Tree

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Jean Stafford

07/01/1915 – 03/26/1979

63 years

White Plains

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MacKinlay Kantor

02/04/1904 – 10/11/1977

73 years

Sarasota

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Family Tree

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Ernest Hemingway

07/21/1899 – 07/02/1961

61 years

American author and journalist

Ketchum

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

08/08/1896 – 12/14/1953

57 years

St. Augustine

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