1981 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

“A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern – this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhi…

Godric

Frederick Buechner

So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell