1930 Pulitzer Prize Contenders for Fiction
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Laughing Boy - Oliver LaFarge
Hemingway and Faulkner were contemporaries of each other—rivals, with vastly different styles. Each wrote novels that contended for the 1930 Pulitzer Prize, and both were passed over for a work history has come to consider lesser—Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge.
As redemption goes, Faulkner did go on to win the award twice, decades later, for his novels, A Fable and The Reivers.
Hemingway nearly won the Pulitzer in 1941 for his novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, after the jury unanimously voted for it. But then Nicholas Murray Butler, the president of Columbia, the college who awards the Pulitzer, turned it down because of its profanity. The result was that no Pulitzer Prize at all was awarded that year for fiction.
However, Hemingway did later win the award for his novella, The Old Man and The Sea, in 1953.
Feel free to turn back the clock to 1930, give these three novels a read, and decide for yourself who the real winner should’ve been.
If you’ve read them, comment below! Which do you think should’ve won?
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A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
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Source
Blog.bookstellyouwhy.com—a helpful article used in the writing of this one.