Top 10 Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels by Scott Laming



You would think winning a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction would ensure an enduring literary legacy. Not always – a number of Pulitzer-winning books are out-of-print. AbeBooks has compiled a list of forgotten winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, as the award was known prior to 1948.

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, or Novel, has been awarded annually since 1918, with the exception of 10 years in which no prize was awarded. The prize has been claimed by many legends, including Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and John Steinbeck. However, winning a Pulitzer does not guarantee a book won't fade into obscurity, so let’s take a moment to remember some of those forgotten, past winners.