The last book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award was The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Walker won both awards in 1983.
Pulitzer Prize
Alice Walker is a prominent American writer known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple." In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, she has received numerous accolades such as the National Book Award for Fiction and the O. Henry Award. Walker's contributions to literature have been recognized with honors and awards from various organizations.
The Pulitzer Prize
pulitzer prize
There are several: the Nobel, the Bookman, the Pulitzer. They are all prestigious. The Nobel is an international award. The Bookman is British. The Pulitzer is American, as is the National Book Award.
The Pulitzer Prize is the most important award worldwide. The Man Booker Prize is considered the most prestigious award given to UK authors. The National Book Critics Award is considered the most prestigious award given to US authors.
One of the most famous American poets alive, Charles Wright has received the prestigious National Book Award and even the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for his book 'The Black Zodiac'
One of the most famous American poets alive, Charles Wright has received the prestigious National Book Award and even the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for his book 'The Black Zodiac'
Kurt Vonnegut won his Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for writting Slaughterhouse-FiveSorry pal, Vonnegut has never won the Pulitzer Prize. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 was:House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
The Nobel Prize for LiteratureThe Pulitzer Prize.Man Booker (England's version of the Pulitzer - arguably more prestigious)National Book Critics CircleNational Book AwardsFor Science Fiction the Hugo is the most prestigiousFor Horror The Edgar Poe
Norman Mailer was a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. His notable works are "The Naked and the Dead," "The Deer Park," and, "The Executioner's Song." His awards include the Pulitzer Prize, in 1969, The National Book Award, also in 1969, and The National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, in 2005.
Of Mice and Men, (1937) was never awarded a Pulitzer Prize. The novella won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1938. Steinbeck's later book, The Grapes of Wrath, (1939) won the Pulitzer Prize for Novels in 1940.Steinbeck was also awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature for his entire body of work, which would include Of Mice and Men.