Memorial pages by award

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

American award for distinguished works of fiction, since 1948

Memorial Pages

21 memorial pages of recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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

Memorial

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

Memorial

Carol Shields

06/02/1935 – 07/16/2003

68 years

American/Canadian author

Victoria

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Memorial

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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Memorial

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

Memorial

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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