JEWISH
RECIPIENTS
OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION*
(15% of
recipients)
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- Edna Ferber (1925), So Big
- Herman Wouk (1952), The Caine Mutiny
- MacKinlay Kantor 1 (1956), Andersonville
- Bernard Malamud (1967), The Fixer
- Saul Bellow (1976), Humboldt's Gift
- Norman Mailer (1980), The Executioner's Song
- Alison Lurie 2 (1985), Foreign Affairs
- Art Spiegelman (1992), Maus
- Steven Millhauser (1997), Martin Dressler: The Tale of an
American Dreamer
- Philip Roth (1998), American Pastoral
- Michael Chabon (2001), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay
- Geraldine Brooks 3 (2006), March
NOTES
* List includes recipients of
the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, which was replaced by this category
in 1948.
1. Born Benjamin MacKinlay
Kantor to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish
mother. See My Father's Voice:
MacKinlay Kantor Long Remembered, by Tim Kantor (McGraw-Hill,
New York, 1988, pp. 28-29, 40, 48-49, 92).
2. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
3. Convert
to Judaism; see Nine Parts of
Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, by Geraldine Brooks
(Anchor Books, New York, 1995, Chapter 5).
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