This author of the novel "Falconer" won a 1979 Pulitzer Prize for some of his short stories
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the short review: Collected Stories by John Cheever  John Cheever was an award winning novelist and short story writer. He won the National Book Award in 1958 for his novel The Wapshot Chronicle and a Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his Collected Stories. Other novels include Bullet Park, Falconer and The Wapshot Scandal. Love the review? Disagree violently? Come rant...
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John Cheever - Wikipedia  John William Cheever (May 27, 1912  June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. ... Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). His ... A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a...
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Stories to Comprehend Life: An Interview with John Cheever - JStor  JOHN cheever is the author of four novels and six collections of stories. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle , won the 1958 National Book ... received a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. .... brans: In some of the stories you have been consciously nasty? ... circumspect, but people are shocked by the sex in Falconer , you know.
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The demons that drove John Cheever | Books | The Guardian  Oct 17, 2009 ... John Cheever at home in Ossining, New York, 1979. ... author of five novels and some of the most brilliant short stories ever published. ... He writes what I think is his best book [Falconer, a novel about a drug .... and won the Pulitzer, the National Book Critics Circle award and the American Book award.
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John Cheever | - LiquiSearch  While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The ... (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). ... of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book ... The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author...
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Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry - The Pulitzer Prizes  The 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction. For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with...
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13 Mysterious Facts About 'The Maltese Falcon' | Mental Floss  Feb 25, 2016 ... Dashiell Hammett first published The Maltese Falcon as a serialized story in the ... was a successful scriptwriter for Warner Bros. in the late 1930s, earning Oscar ... Sam Spade uses the word gunsel three times in reference to Wilmer, the .... Sam Spade: [impatiently] Now, let's *talk* about the black bird.
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Pulitzer Prize Board 1971-1972  This Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 1972 winners ... (1942), war correspondent (1943-45) and foreign correspondent (1945-60). ... In 1949, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on ... A 1958 short story ("Four O'Clock") was adapted by Rod Serling into a 1962...
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novel 'ironweed' and mamet play are awarded 1984 pulitzer prizes  Apr 17, 1984 ... In journalism, four newspapers each took two prizes - The New York ... to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents. ... cutthroat real estate salesmen, won the Pulitzer Prizes for fiction and drama yesterday. ... In letters, prizes were awarded to Dr. Louis R. Harlan for his biography,...
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Philip Roth - Wikipedia  Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an ... He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel American Pastoral, which featured one of his .... Roth's first book, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, won the National Book...
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Heath Anthology of American LiteratureNorman Mailer - Author Page  The Armies of the Night (1968), for which Mailer won both the Pulitzer Prize for ... In 1979 he won his second Pulitzer Prize, for The Executioner's Song, the...
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Contestants fail to rise to the occasion - Collections - Baltimore Sun  Mar 17, 2005 ... From 2004: In 1997, Lisa Pollak won a Pulitzer Prize reporting for this Baltimore newspaper where H.L. Mencken once worked. There was one...
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Peninsula Library System : Pulitzer Prize  ... Father,by John Matteson. 2007, The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate ... 1999, Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg ... 1996, God: A Biography by Jack Miles ... 1993, Truman by David McCullough .... Blizzard of One by Mark Strand.
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Thornton Wilder - Wikipedia  Notable awards, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1927), Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1938, 1942), National Book Award for Fiction (1968). Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897  December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizesfor the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two ... It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and in 1998 it was selected by the editorial...
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April 15,1998 Commentary Of Your Hometown Newspaper ...  Apr 3, 1998 ... Have we used too many big words for you? .... called Wright to get his reaction to winning the prestigious prize for poetry. "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick," said Wright, an English professor at the University of Virginia. ... Wright is the third University of Virginia professor to win a Pulitzer.
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James A. Michener - Wikipedia  James Albert Michener was an American author of more than 40 books, the majority of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history. ... Michener's novels include Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the Pulitzer Prize...
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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Is it Really All That Distinguished ...  Apr 8, 2010 ... Poor F. Scott Fitzgerald never won a Pulitzer Prize. ... None of those overlap, as only two post-1950 Pulitzer winners were on the list and .... 1929  Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin .... So that discounted great short story collections from the major writers of the ..... 1983  The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
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Bernard Malamud ~ Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Fixer (1967 ...  Bernard Malamud ~ Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Fixer (1967) | See more about ... His last poem Goodbye my friend, goodbye according to Wolf Ehrlich was given to him the day before. .... Yet it seems / you may not know it that well.
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1967 - www.nbafictionblog.org - National Book Awards Fiction ...  Jul 21, 2009 ... People around him try to help, but they are either rejected or ... The Fixer by the Bernard Malamud also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Russell Baker - The Baltimore Literary Heritage Project  Russell Baker, The New York Times Magazine, 1973 ... who wrote one of the most widely read newspaper columns in the United States. ... Fortunately, he won a scholarship and began attending Hopkins in 1942, but he put ... He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1979 and a second Pulitzer in 1983, this time for his...
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The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (John Day) - The Pulitzer Prizes  Prize Winners  The 1932 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Novel. The Novel category was re-named Fiction in 1947. The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (John Day).