![]() ![]() ![]() On the Book Review’s cover, Patricia Nelson Limerick wrote that “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder” (one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017) "deserves recognition as an essential text for getting a grip on the dynamics and consequences of this vast literary enterprise. Application and payments are accepted exclusively online. In our cover review, Philip Connors noted “the story reads like a watery version of the history of the American West.”Ĭaroline Fraser’s study of the author of the seminal American classic “Little House on the Prairie” (among other books) received the prize for biography. Named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Willa Cather, The WILLA Literary Award recognizes the best in literature, featuring women’s or girls’ stories set in the North American West that are published each year. Davis’s “The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea,” a look at the planet’s 10th largest body of water, the Gulf of Mexico. ![]() Previous winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction include Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty.Īndrew Sean Greer received this year’s fiction award for his novel “Less.” In his assessment, which appeared on the cover of the Book Review, Christopher Buckley wrote, “It’s no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.” ![]() The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week at Columbia University.Įndowed by the newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer and first awarded in 1917, the prizes acknowledge achievement in journalism as well as in American letters. ![]()
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