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Henry Adams,  The Education of Henry Adams (1919 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography).
Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok (1921 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography).
Charles Dickens,  Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins.
Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895),  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, his Early Life as a Slave, his Escape from Bondage, and his Complete History to the Present Time;  Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass;   The Heroic Slave;    My Bondage, My Freedom;    A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Ben Franklin,  The Autobiography and Other Writings;  Poor Richard's Almanac.
Thomas Jefferson,   Autobiography.
Helen Keller,The Story of My Life.
Samuel Pepys,  The Concise Pepys.
Mart Twain,   Chapters from My Autobiography;    Eve's Diary;  Extracts from Adam's Diary.
Booker T Washington,   Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (1901).
 
 

James Truslow Adams, The Founding of New England (1922 Pulitzer Prize for History).
Samuel Flagg Bemis,  Pinckneys Treaty (1927 Pulitzer Prize for History).
Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. (1920 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
James Boswell,   Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
William Cabell Bruce,  Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed (1918 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
Thomas Carlyle,  Early Kings of Norway;    The French Revolution:  A History;    The Life of John Sterling;   On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History;   Sartor Resartus .
G. K. Chesterton,  Charles Dickens.
Hamlin Garland, A Daughter of the Middle Border (1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
Edward Gibbon,   The History and Decline of the Roman Empire Volumes I, II, II, IV, V, VI.
Emory Holloway, Whitman (1927 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (1923 Pulitzer Prize for Biography);  The Training of an American. The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (1929 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
M. A. Dewolfe Howe, Barrett Wendell and His Letters (1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
Marquis James,  The Raven (1930 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, With Americans of Past and Present Days (1917 Pulitzer Prize for History).
Thomas Babbington Macaulay,  Lays of Ancient Rome.
Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. (1928 Pulitzer Prize for History).
Francis Parkman,  The Oregon Trail.
Frederic L. Paxson, History of the American Frontier (1925 Pulitzer Prize for History).
Michael Idvorsky Pupin,  From Immigrant to Inventor (1924 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
James Ford Rhodes, A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (1918 Pulitzer Prize for History).
Laura E. Richards, Julia Ward Howe (1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
Charles Edward Russell,  The American Orchestra and TheodoreThomas (1928 Pulitzer Prize for Biography).
Fred Albert Shannon, The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 (1929 Pulitzer Prize for History).
Justin H. Smith, The War with Mexico, 2 vols. (1920 Pulitzer Prize for History).
Claude H. Van Tyne,  The War of independence (1930 Pulitzer Prize for History).
 
 

Matthew Arnold,   The Function of Criticism at the Present Time.
Thomas Carlyle,  (On) Sir Walter Scott.
G. K. Chesterton,  Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens;
Ralph Waldo Emerson,  English Traits;    Literary Ethics: An Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838.
George Meredith,  An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit.
Walter Pater, The Renaissance:  Studies in Art and Poetry.
Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing.
Oscar Wilde,  Essays and Lectures.

F. Lauriston Bullard of Boston Herald (1927 Pulitzer Prize for the editorial entitled " Submit").
No author named of Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier,  (1925 Pulitzer Prize for the editorial entitled "Plight of the South").
Grover Cleveland Hall of Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser (1928 Pulitzer Prize for his editorials against gangsterism floggings and racial and religious intolerance).
Louis Isaac Jaffe of Norfolk Virginian-Pilot  (1929 Pulitzer Prize for his editorial entitled "Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the Iynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent.)
Edward M. Kingsbury of New York Times (1926 Pulitzer Prize for the editorial entitled "House of a Hundred Sorrows").
No Author named of Louisville Courier Journal  (1918 Pulitzer Prize for the editorial article "Vae Victis!" and the editorial "War Has Its Compensation").
Frank M. O'Brien of New York Herald,  (1922 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for an article entitled, "The Unknown Soldier").
William Allen White of Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, (1923 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for an editorial entitled "To an Anxious Friend").

Francis Bacon,   Essays of Francis Bacon.
Thomas Carlyle,  Characteristics.
G. K. Chesterton,  Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,    Selected Works and Commentary;     Self-Reliance;The American Scholar;    The Conduct of Life;    Essays: First Series (1841);    Essays: Second Series;    The Method of Nature;    Representative Man;    The Young American;    Divinity School Address;    Man The Reformer;    Nature; Addresses and Lectures (1849).
Benjamin Franklin,  Essay and Letters.
John Locke,  Essays Concerning Human Understanding;
George Orwell;  Politics and the English Language.
George Bernard Shaw,  A Treatise on Parents and Children.
Henry David Thoreau,   Cape Cod;  Civil Disobedience;  Life Without Principle;  The Maine Woods;    Slavery in Massachusetts;  Walden;Walking;A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
Charles Lamb, Elia:  Essays Which Have Appeared Under that Signature in the London Magazine.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Travel.

Joseph Addison,  A Story of an Heir.
Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis.
Honoré de Balzac, A Passion in the Desert.
Ambrose Bierce,  Beyond the Wall;  The Boarded Window;    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
Lewis Carroll,  The Complete Stories of Lewis Caroll.
Willa Cather,  Alexander's Bridge;    The Troll Garden and Other Stories.
Anton Chekhov,  The Lottery Ticket;   A Slander.
G.K. Chesterton,  A Collection of Stories.
Kate Chopin,  The Awakening and Other Stories.
Richard Connell,  The Most Dangerous Game.
Steve Crane,   Whilomville Stories (13 stories appearing in Harperâs between 1899 - 1900).
Thomas de Quincey,   Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow.
Daniel Defoe,  In Defence of His Right  (1659-1731).
Charles Dickens,  The Old Manís Tale about the Queer Client;    The Baron of Grogzwig.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,  Bobok; The Crocodile: An Extraordinary Incident;    The Dream of a Ridiculous Man;    A Gentle Spirit.
Oliver Goldsmith,  The Disabled Soldier  (1728-1774).
Nathaniel Hawthore,  The Ambitious Guest;    Ethan Brand;  The Minister's Black Veil;  Young Goodman Brown.
Shirley Jackson,  The Lottery.
Henry James,   The Turn of the Screw.
James Joyce,  Araby;A Little Cloud.
Rudyard Kipling,   The Elephant's Child;  How the Leopard Got His Spots;  Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
Ring Lardner,  Haircut.
D. H. Lawrence,  Rocking-Horse Winner.
Jack London,  The Sea Farmer;    To Build a Fire;    Samuel.
Guy de Maupassant,    An Affair of State;    Bellflower;Confessing;A Coward;The Hairpin;Humiliation;The Necklace;Old Mongilet;The Piece of String;   The Vendetta.
Herman Melville,  The Fiddler; The Lightning-Rod Man.
O. Henry,  The Gift of the Magi;  The Last Leaf;  The Princess and the Puma;  The Ransom of Red Chief.
George Orwell,   Shooting an Elephant.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Eva is Inside Her Cat;    Eyes of a Blue Dog;    One of These Days.
Thomas More,  Utopia, 1516.
Dorothy Parker,  A Telephone Call.
Edgar Allan Poe,  The Cask of Amontillado;    The Fall of the House of Usher;  The Masque of the Red Death;  The Pit and the Pendulum;  The Tell-Tale Heart.
Saki (H. H. Munro),  The Mouse;    Mrs. Packletide's Tiger;    The Open Window;  Sredni Vashtar.
Richard Steele,  The Wedding of Jenny Distaff  (1672-1729).
R. L. Stevenson,  Markheim (1850-1894).
Frank Stockton,  The Griffin and the Minor Canon;  The Lady, or the Tiger?
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, 1863.
Dylan Thomas,   A Child's Christmas in Wales.
Mark Twain,   The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Twenty-Six Other Sketches;Luck;The Private History of a Campaign That Failed;    Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
H. G. Wells,  The Diamond Maker;  The Door in the Wall;   The Stolen Bacillus;  The Time Machine.
Edith Wharton,  Souls Belated.
E. B. White,  The Door.
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force.
Tobias Wolff,  Hunters in the Snow.
Virginia Woolf,  A Haunted House;    Monday or Tuesday.
Mary Wollstonecraft,  Maria, 1789.

W.E.B. Du Bois,   The Souls of Black Folk.
Thomas Jefferson,  The Declaration of Independence;     Notes on the State of Virginia;    A Summary View of the Rights of British America;    Quotations On Politics and Goverment.
Martin Luther King, Jr.  I Have a Dream.
John Locke,   A Letter Concerning Toleration;  Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
Niccolo Machiavelli,  Prince.
John Stuart Mill,  On Liberty.
John Milton,  Areopagitica;Colasterion;Comus, A Mask; The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce;  Of Education;    A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes.
Sir Saint Thomas More, Utopia.
Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice;  The American Crisis;    Dissertation on First Principles of Government;    Common Sense.
Olive Schreiner,  Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story;    Stories, Dreams and Allegories; The Story of an African Farm; Woman and Labour.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
Mary Wollstonecraft,  Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted (1925 Pulitzer Prize for Drama).

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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:  These highly esteemed, annual prizes are awarded by Columbia University, New York City, on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university, for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes have been awarded each May since 1917. The prizes have varied in number and category over the years but currently number 14 prizes in the field of journalism, 6 prizes in letters, 1 prize in music, and 4 fellowships.  The award for fiction falls under the category of awards in letters for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

Louise May Alcott,  Little Women, 1869;    Good Wives.
Jane Austen,   Emma; Mansfield Park, 1814;    Northanger Abbey, 1803;    Persuasion, 1818;     Pride and Prejudice, 1813;     Lady Susan;    Sense and Sensibility, 1811.
R.D. Blackmore,  Lorna Doone.
Louis Bromfield,  Early Autumn (1927 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Emily Bronte,   Wuthering Heights.
Charlotte Bronte,   Jane Eyre, 1846.
Willa Cather,  My Antonia;    One of Ours (1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Lewis Carroll,  Complete Works.
G.K. Chesterton,    The Man Who Was Thursday.
Kate Chopin,  The Awakening.
Joseph Conrad,   Lord Jim;    Nostromo;The Secret Agent;     Heart of Darkness;    The Secret Sharer;   The Arrow of Gold;    The Rover.
Stephan Crane,   Maggie, A Girl of the Streets;  The Red Badge of Courage.
Daniel Defoe,  Robinson Crusoe, 1719;     The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders.
Charles Dickens,   American Notes;     Barnaby Rudge;    Bleak House;    A Tale of Two Cities;    A Christmas Carol;    Dombey and Son;    Great Expectations;    Hard Times;    Little Dorrit;    The Pickwick Papers;    David Copperfield;  The Old Curiosity Shop;    Our Mutual Friend;   Oliver Twist;    The Uncommercial Traveller.
Fyodor Dostoevsky,  Brothers Karamazov, 1879;    Crime and Punishment;   The Double;   The Insulted and Injured;   Notes from the Underground.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Theodore Dreiser,  Sister Carrie.
George Eliot,  Mill on the Floss ;        Middlemarch.
Edna Ferber, So Big (1925 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Henry Fielding,  Tom Jones, 1749.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,  This Side of Paradise.
Anatole France,  Penguin Island, 1908.
Oliver Goldsmith,  The Vicar of Wakefield.
Thomas Hardy,   Tess of the d'Urbervilles;   Far From the Madding Crowd;   Jude the Obscure;   Mayor of Casterbridge;    Return of the Native.
Nathanel Hawthorne,  The House of the Seven Gables, 1815;   The Scarlet Letter, 1850.
Henry James,   The Aspern Papers;    The Turn of the Screw;   Washington Square, 1880;    The American, 1877;   The Europeans;  the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites.
James Joyce,  Ulysses, 1922;     A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;  Dubliners.
D.H. Lawrence,   Lady Chatterley's Lover; Women in Love.
Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (1926 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction); Our Mr. Wrenn, 1914.
Jack London,   The Call of the Wild;    Jack London's Complete Works.
W. Somerset Maugham,  Of Human Bondage, 1915.
Herman Melville,    Bartleby the Scrivener;    Moby Dick;    Billy Budd;    Benito Cereno.
Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary (1929 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Ernest Poole, His Family (1918 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Sir Walter Scott,   Ivanhoe.
Anna Sewell;   Black Beauty.
Upton Sinclair,  The Jungle, 1906.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow;  The Dynamiter;    Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde;   Kidnapped;Treasure Island;      Prince Otto.
Harriet Beecher Stowe,   Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Jonathan Swift,  Gulliver's Travels, 1726.
Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons  (1919 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).  Alice Adams (1922 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
William Makepeace Thackeray,   Vanity Fair.
Leo Tolstoy,   Anna Karenina, 1870;    War and Peace.
Mark Twain,   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;    Life on the Mississippi;   Innocents Abroad;  The Bridge-Builders;   The Prince and the Pauper;Pudd'nhead Wilson;   A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889;   Huckleberry Finn, 1884.
Jules Verne,  Around the World in 80 Days.
Voltaire,  Candide, 1759.
Edith Wharton,   Summer, 1917;    The Age of Innocence (1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction); Ethan Frome;  The Buccaneers;   A Backward Glance;  The Custom of the Country.
Oscar Wilde,  Picture of Dorian Gray.
Thornton Wilder,  The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Virginia Woolf,  The Voyage Out, 1915.
Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins (1924 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).