Pulitzer Prize Book List

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Title: The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female African - American life during the 1930's in southern America, addressing the numerous issues in the black female life, including their exceedingly low position in black social culture. Because of the novel's sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence, it has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number eighteen.

Title: The Good Earth
Author: Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).

Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
The narrative begins from Tom Joad's point of view just after he is paroled from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. On his journey home, he meets a preacher, Jim Casy, who he remembers from his childhood and the two travel together. When they arrive at Tom's childhood farm home, they find it deserted. Disconcerted, he and Casy go to the farm of Tom's Uncle John, a few miles away, where he finds his family loading a truck with everything they own.

Title: The Killer Angels
Author: Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels (1974) is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book tells the story of four days of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War: June 29, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and July 3, when the battle was fought.

Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Jean Louise Finch (Scout) lives with her brother, Jeremy (Jem), and their widowed father, Atticus, on the main residential street in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. A successful lawyer and a widower, Atticus raises Jem and Scout with the help of their black cook, Calpurnia.
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