Monday, November 25

Pulitzer Prize

1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1981 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerA Confederacy of DuncesJohn 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...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistGodricFrederick BuechnerAmazonSo Long, See You TomorrowWilliam MaxwellAmazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1981 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerFin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and CultureCarl E. SchorskeA landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid ...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistChina MenMaxine Hong KingstonAmazonGoodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific WarWilliam ManchesterAmazonSoutherners: A Journalist's OdysseyMarshall FradyAmazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1981 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerAmerican Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876Lawrence A. Cremin...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistA Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New EnglandLyle KoehlerAmazonOver Here: The First World War and American SocietyDavid M. KennedyAmazon
1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1981 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Morning of the PoemJames SchuylerSchuyler's new collection has at its core a nearly book-length poem in which the elements of letter writing, autobiography, and fable combine to transfigure poet and audience, past and present, and suffering and pleasure...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistSelected PoemsMark StrandAmazonThe Right Madness on SkyeRichard HugoAmazon
1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1982 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1982 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGrant: A BiographyWilliam S. McFeelyA definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant traces the life of America's eighteenth president from his uneventful childhood, through his West Point education and extraordinary successes on the battlefield, to his failure in the world...Amazon1982 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistGrantJean Edward SmithAmazonWaldo EmersonGay Wilson AllenAmazon
1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1982 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1982 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerRabbit is RichJohn UpdikeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative...Amazon1982 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Flag for SunriseRobert StoneAmazonHousekeepingMarilynne RobinsonAmazon
1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1982 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1982 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Soul of a New MachineTracy KidderPulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder memorably records the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the comp...Amazon1982 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistBasin and RangeJohn McPheeAmazonMrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet DoctorDiana TrillingAmazon
1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1982 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1982 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerMary Chesnut's Civil WarC. Vann WoodwardAn authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy....Amazon1982 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistPower and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945Akira IriyeAmazonWhite Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African HistoryGeorge M. FredricksonAmazon
1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1982 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1982 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Collected PoemsSylvia PlathPulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. ...Amazon1982 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistDream FlightsDave SmithAmazonThe Southern CrossCharles WrightAmazon
1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1983 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1983 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGrowing UpRussell BakerThe Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: “So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny” (The New York Times). Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, thi...Amazon1983 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistBlack Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett JustKenneth ManningAmazonThomas Carlyle: A BiographyFred KaplanAmazonThomas E. Dewey and His TimesRichard Norton SmithAmazon