Pulitzer Prize Winners of The 1960s

1960

Advise and Consent

Allen Drury

Very popular and sensational at the time, this novel revolves about the political and personal hostile intrigue in the Senate surrounding the consideration of the confirmation of a secretary of state.

1961

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The plot turns on the sensatioanl trial of a black man charged with raping a white woman, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter of the white defense lawyer.

1962

The Edge of Sadness

Edwin O'Connor

This novel, set in a city modeled on Boston, protrays with sympathy the rector of a small Catholic parish, a reformed drunkard, and other vivid Irish- American characters.

1963

The Reivers

William Faulker

An amusing fictive "reminiscence" of a boy's various misadvertures in 1905.

1964

No award

1965

The Keepers of the House

Shirley Ann Grau

A portrayal of the personal and political problems of a Southern family with a background of interracial marriage.

1966

Collected Stories

Katherine Ann Porter

1967

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud

The novel's story is based on an actual 1913 Russian case of a Jew falsely accused of murder and the resultant attempt to break his spirit and that of all Jews in the country.

1968

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

This novel won Styron his greatest critical acclaim while stirring strong protests, mainly from black critics, of the way in which he conceived the protagonist and his followers in the fictive first-person rendering of the historical Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellion in Virginia during 1831.

1969

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

A portrait of a young Native American man torn apart between two worlds, unable to be at home in either the white or his ancestral society.