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The first Pulitzer Prize was awarded in 1917. Since then, writers like Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Pearl Buck, Thornton Wilder, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck have received the award. Read more about the Pulitzer Prize.
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The Pulitzer Prize site offers a history of the prize, along with entry forms, and a FAQ.
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
n 1904, Joseph Pulitzer made provision in his will for establishing the Pulitzer Prizes--to recognize excellence in writing. Since 1917, famous American writers like Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Pearl Buck, Thornton Wilder, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and many others have received the award. Here are a few of those most famous novels!

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