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Pulitzer Prize Winning Authors (Fiction) - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 554 times
219 since last reset
- The average score is 20 of 99
Answer Stats
| Year | Author | Book | % Correct |
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| 1953 | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | 91%
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| 1961 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | 90%
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| 1940 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | 86%
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| 1988 | Toni Morrison | Beloved | 72%
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| 1937 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind | 67%
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| 1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 58%
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| 1921 | Edith Wharton | The Age of Innocence | 53%
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| 2007 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road | 51%
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| 1932 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth | 51%
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| 1982 | John Updike | Rabbit is Rich | 47%
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| 1991 | John Updike | Rabbit At Rest | 47%
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| 2014 | Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch | 43%
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| 1986 | Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove | 36%
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| 1998 | Philip Roth | American Pastoral | 36%
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| 1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable | 36%
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| 1963 | William Faulkner | The Reivers | 36%
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| 2023 (tie) | Barbara Kingsolver | Demon Copperhead | 34%
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| 2017 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | 32%
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| 2020 | Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys | 32%
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| 1981 | John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces | 29%
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| 1926 | Sinclair Lewis | Arrowsmith | 28%
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| 1980 | Norman Mailer | The Executioner's Song | 27%
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| 1947 | Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men | 27%
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| 1928 | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | 27%
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| 1994 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | 26%
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| 2025 | Percival Everett | James | 25%
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| 2023 (tie) | Hernan Diaz | Trust | 24%
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| 2008 | Junot Diaz | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | 24%
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| 1976 | Saul Bellow | Humboldt's Gift | 24%
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| 2003 | Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex | 23%
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| 2004 | Edward P. Jones | The Known World | 20%
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| 1948 | James A. Michener | Tales of the South Pacific | 20%
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| 2013 | Adam Johnson | The Orphan Master's Son | 19%
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| 1934 | Caroline Miller | Lamb in His Bosom | 19%
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| 1935 | Josephine Winslow Johnson | Now in November | 19%
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| 2005 | Marilynne Robinson | Gilead | 19%
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| 2001 | Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | 19%
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| 2015 | Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See | 18%
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| 1952 | Herman Wouk | The Caine Mutiny | 18%
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| 2011 | Jennifer Egan | A Visit from the Goon Squad | 18%
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| 2016 | Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Sympathizer | 17%
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| 1919 | Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons | 16%
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| 1922 | Booth Tarkington | Alice Adams | 16%
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| 1968 | William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner | 16%
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| 1943 | Upton Sinclair | Dragon's Teeth | 15%
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| 1979 | John Cheever | The Stories of ____ ______ | 14%
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| 1939 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling | 14%
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| 2019 | Richard Powers | The Overstory | 14%
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| 1972 | Wallace Stegner | Angle of Repose | 14%
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| 1984 | William Kennedy | Ironweed | 14%
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| 1989 | Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons | 13%
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| 1925 | Edna Ferber | So Big | 13%
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| 2000 | Jhumpa Lahiri | Interpreter of Maladies | 13%
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| 1999 | Michael Cunningham | The Hours | 13%
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| 1975 | Michael Shaara | The Killer Angels | 13%
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| 2002 | Richard Russo | Empire Falls | 13%
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| 1923 | Willa Cather | One of Ours | 13%
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| 1958 | James Agee | A Death in the Family | 12%
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| 1992 | Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres | 12%
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| 1924 | Margaret Wilson | The Able McLaughlins | 12%
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| 1996 | Richard Ford | Independence Day | 12%
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| 1973 | Eudora Welty | The Optimist's Daughter | 11%
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| 1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer | 10%
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| 1962 | Edwin O'Connor | The Edge of Sadness | 10%
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| 2022 | Joshua Cohen | The Netanyahus | 10%
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| 2021 | Louise Erdrich | The Night Watchman | 10%
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| 1987 | Peter Taylor | A Summons to Memphis | 10%
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| 1959 | Robert Lewis Taylor | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | 10%
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| 1945 | John Hersey | A Bell for Adano | 9%
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| 1950 | A. B. Guthrie | The Way West | 8%
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| 1918 | Ernest Poole | His Family | 8%
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| 1936 | Harold L. Davis | Honey in the Horn | 8%
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| 1969 | N. Scott Momaday | House Made of Dawn | 8%
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| 2009 | Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge | 7%
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| 2006 | Geraldine Brooks | March | 7%
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| 1956 | MacKinlay Kantor | Andersonville | 7%
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| 1960 | Allen Drury | Advise and Consent | 6%
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| 1942 | Ellen Glasgow | In This Our Life | 6%
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| 2024 | Jayne Anne Phillips | Night Watch | 6%
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| 1929 | Julia Peterkin | Scarlet Sister Mary | 6%
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| 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | Collected Stories | 6%
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| 1930 | Oliver La Farge | Laughing Boy | 6%
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| 1985 | Alison Lurie | Foreign Affairs | 5%
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| 1995 | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries | 5%
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| 1978 | James Alan McPherson | Elbow Room | 5%
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| 1949 | James Gould Cozzens | Guard of Honor | 5%
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| 1938 | John Phillips Marquand | The Late George Apley | 5%
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| 1927 | Louis Bromfield | Early Autumn | 5%
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| 1931 | Margaret Ayer Barnes | Years of Grace | 5%
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| 1990 | Oscar Hijuelos | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | 5%
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| 2010 | Paul Harding | Tinkers | 5%
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| 1933 | T. S. Stribling | The Store | 5%
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| 2018 | Andrew Sean Greer | Less | 4%
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| 1951 | Conrad Richter | The Town | 4%
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| 1944 | Martin Flavin | Journey in the Dark | 4%
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| 1993 | Robert Olen Butler | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | 4%
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| 1970 | Jean Stafford | Collected Stories | 3%
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| 1965 | Shirley Ann Grau | The Keepers of the House | 3%
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| 1997 | Steven Millhauser | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer | 3%
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