Which novelist won Pulitzer Prizes, John Braine or Thornton Wilder?
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John Braine John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) was an English novelist. Braine is usually listed among the Angry Young Men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.
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Thornton Wilder Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and for the two plays "Our Town" and "The Skin of Our Teeth" — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel "The Eighth Day".
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Nathaniel Lande Nathaniel Lande, born of Canadian parents, is a journalist, author, and filmmaker with a career spanning several decades. He is the author of ten books including "Cricket" and "Dispatches from the Front: A History of the American War Correspondent", and was a creative force behind Time, Inc. during his tenure.
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Arnold Roth Arnold Roth (born February 25, 1929) is an American freelance cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines, and newspapers. Novelist John Updike wrote, "All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so."
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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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The Matchmaker The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder.
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John Bowe (author) John Bowe (born 1964 in Minnesota) is an American author. He is a contributing writer for "The New York Times". He has also written for "The New Yorker", "The American Prospect", "GQ", "McSweeney's", and "This American Life". He co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Basquiat" with Julian Schnabel.
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Peter Carey (novelist) Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for "Oscar and Lucinda", and won for the second time in 2001 with "True History of the Kelly Gang". In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
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J. A. Baker John Alec Baker was an English author best known for "The Peregrine," which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1967. Robert Macfarlane deemed it to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read." Werner Herzog called it the "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films," and said elsewhere "... it has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad."
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Farmer Boy Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1933. It was the second-published one in the "Little House" series but it is not related to the first, which that of the third directly continues. Thus the latter, "Little House on the Prairie", is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of "the Laura Years".
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Tim Thornton (musician, born 1973) Tim Thornton (born 1973) is an English musician, composer and novelist. He is best known as the drummer and guitarist for the UK Indie act Fink. He was born in Darlington. After a boarding-school education, he completed a degree in drama.
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Hobart Chatfield-Taylor Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor (March 24, 1865 - January 17, 1945) was an American writer, novelist, and biographer. He was considered a top authority on Molière.
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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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Erskine Caldwell Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States in novels such as "Tobacco Road" (1932) and "God's Little Acre" (1933) won him critical acclaim, but also made him controversial among Southerners of the time who felt he was deprecating the people of the region.
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Wilder Smith Wilder Smith (July 17, 1835 – September 1, 1891) was an American minister and author.
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Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
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Andy Weir Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist whose debut novel, "The Martian", was later adapted into a film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott in 2015. He also worked as a computer programmer for much of his life. He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016.
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Jean Fritz Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14, 2017) was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history. She won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986. She turned 100 in November 2015.
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John Bushore John Bushore is a novelist and short story writer of speculative fiction and has also published poetry. A three-time winner of the James B. Baker Award (2002, 2004, and 2005), his stories and poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Two of his stories ("Going Native" and "Monkey Bottom") are included in the Exotic Gothic textbook/anthologies, part of an international studies course in Gothic and Horror Literature.
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John Martel (novelist) John S. Martel is an American lawyer and novelist.
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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 Train (investment advisor) John Train (born 1928) is an American investment advisor and author. He attended Groton School and Harvard University (B.A. and M.A.), where he was head of the "Lampoon" and the Signet Society. In 1953, he co-founded and became the first managing editor of "The Paris Review", which won attention by publishing extended interviews with such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder and William Faulkner.