What American author born in 1915, and won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, wrote the 1965 novel, 'Don't Stop the Carnival'?
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Don't Stop the Carnival (novel) Don't Stop the Carnival is a 1965 novel by American writer Herman Wouk. It is a comedy about escaping middle-age crisis to the Caribbean, a heaven that quickly turns into a hell for the main character. The novel was turned into a short-lived musical and later, album by Jimmy Buffett in 1997.
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Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; born May 27, 1915) is an American author. His 1951 novel "The Caine Mutiny" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other works include "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance", historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as "This Is My God", a popular explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. "The Washington Post" called Wouk, who cherishes his privacy, “the reclusive dean of American historical novelists.” Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday likened him to "an American Tolstoy."
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John Steinbeck IV John Steinbeck IV (June 12, 1946 – February 7, 1991) was an American journalist and author. He was the second child of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. In 1965, he was drafted into the United States Army and served in Vietnam. He worked as a journalist for Armed Forces Radio and TV, and as a war correspondent for the United States Department of Defense.
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Ross Lockridge Jr. Ross Franklin Lockridge Jr., (April 25, 1914 – March 6, 1948) was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is noted for "Raintree County" (1948), a widely praised novel which many readers and critics considered a contender for the "Great American Novel," and for his death by suicide just as it was reaching the top of the best-seller lists.
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Clyde Brion Davis Clyde Brion Davis (May 22, 1894–July 19, 1962) was an American author and freelance journalist active from the mid-1920s until his death. Davis is best known for his novels "The Anointed" and "The Great American Novel", though he authored more than 15 books.
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw Eloise Jarvis McGraw (December 9, 1915 – November 30, 2000) was an American author of children's books and young adult novels. She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in three different decades, for her novels "Moccasin Trail" (1952), "The Golden Goblet" (1962), and "The Moorchild" (1997). "A Really Weird Summer" (1977) won an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. McGraw had a very strong interest in history, and among the many books she wrote for children are "Greensleeves", "The Seventeenth Swap", and "Mara, Daughter of the Nile". A Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was given to "Moccasin Trail" in 1963.
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Intruder in the Dust "Intruder in the Dust " is a novel by the Nobel Prize–winning American author William Faulkner published
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Edwin O'Connor Edwin O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel "The Edge of Sadness" (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.
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Thomas Alexander Boyd Thomas Alexander Boyd (July 3, 1898 – January 27, 1935) was an American journalist and novelist, born in Defiance, Ohio. He was raised by his mother's family due to his father's death before he was born. While still in school, he and a friend enlisted in the US Marine Corps and saw service in France, where he was gassed in 1918.
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William Mulvihill William Patrick Mulvihill (June 25, 1923 – September 17, 2004) was an American author of several novels, most notable of which is the "New York Times" bestseller "The Sands of Kalahari", which was later adapted into the movie "Sands of the Kalahari" by Paramount during 1965.
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Alan Armstrong Alan W. Armstrong (born December 15, 1939) is an American writer. His best known book is the children's novel "Whittington", published in 2005, which was a Newbery Medal honor book.
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Anne Goodwin Winslow Anne Goodwin Winslow (June 14, 1875 – November 25, 1959) was an American novelist and short-story writer who published her first work of prose at the age of 68.
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The Carnival (short story) "The Carnival" is an American short story written by Michael Fedo.
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The Goldfinch (novel) The Goldfinch (2013) is the third novel by American author Donna Tartt, her first new book in 11 years. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 among other honors.
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Paul Theroux Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is "The Great Railway Bazaar" (1975). He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel "The Mosquito Coast," which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name.
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John W. Cunningham John Marshall Cunningham (July 28, 1915 – June 4, 2002) was an American author who wrote a number of Western novels and stories as "John W. Cunningham" or "John M. Cunningham."
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Jane Ransom Jane Reavill Ransom is a prize-winning American novelist and poet.
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Marshall Sprague Marshall Sprague (March 14, 1909–September 9, 1994) was an American journalist in New York, Paris, and China and author of books about western United States History. From Ohio, he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado to recuperate following a diagnosis of tuberculosis and settled there. He received the Colorado Authors League Top Hand Award for "Massacre: The Tragedy At White River" and "A Gallery of Dudes", the latter of which was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Harriet Theresa Comstock Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860–1925) was an American novelist and author of children's books.
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Victory (novel) Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The "New York Times", however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad's best work."
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Robert Gover Robert Gover (November 2, 1929 – January 12, 2015) was an American journalist who became a best-selling novelist at age 30. His first novel, "One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding", a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down America's fear of four-letter words and sexually explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy. Gover worked with writers for three decades, and one of his best known students was American writer Christopher Klim. "On the Run with Dick and Jane" was his ninth novel. His previous book, "Time and Money", explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations. In 2015, the Eric Hoffer Prose Award was renamed the Gover Story Prize in his honor.
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Lamb in His Bosom Lamb in His Bosom is a 1933 novel by Caroline Miller. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1934. It also won the Prix Femina in 1934 and became an immediate best-seller. Many names and historical parts of this book were contributed by William Avery McIntosh, of Mt. Pleasant, Wayne County, Georgia. His only child, a daughter, is still living in Northeast Georgia.