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Author Toni Morrison wrote Beloved, the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction.
Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel The Color Purple, which went on to become a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning film.
The novel Half a Life, published in 2001, was written by V. S. Naipaul. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul is a Nobel Prize-winning author.
William Kennedy's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ironweed, was about the Great Depression, but so was John Steinbeck's 1940 Pulitzer Prize novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
Graham Swift is the author behind the 1996 Man Booker Prize winning novel, Last Orders.
Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, was published in 1982 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
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The final category was 20th Century Authors The Clue was: A novel set during the depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer prize and contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize on 1962 The answer was: Who was John Steinbeck
Author Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence.
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Two 1940s-era Pulitzer Prize-winning books became major motion pictures. The first was John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize; the second was James Michener's novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which won the 1948 Pulitzer.