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| 1975 | E. L. Doctorow |
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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is an American author.
Edgar Lawrence ("E.L.") Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent. He attended city...
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Ragtime | ||
| 1976 | John Gardner |
John Champlin Gardner, Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was a well-known and controversial American novelist and university professor, best known for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth.
Gardner was born in Batavia, New York....
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October Light | |||
| 1977 | Toni Morrison |
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Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters....
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Song of Solomon | ||
| 1978 | John Cheever |
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John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New...
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The Stories of John Cheever | ||
| 1979 | Thomas Flanagan |
Thomas Flanagan (5 November 1923 in Greenwich, Connecticut, – 21 March 2002 in Berkeley, California) was an American professor of English literature who specialized in Irish literature. He was also a successful novelist. Flanagan graduated from...
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The Year of the French | |||
| 1980 | Shirley Hazzard |
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Shirley Hazzard (born 30 January 1931) is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States.
Hazzard was born in Sydney, Australia, and attended Queenwood School for Girls...
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The Transit Of Venus | ||
| 1981 | John Updike |
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
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Rabbit Is Rich | ||
| 1982 | Stanley Elkin |
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Stanley Elkin (May 11, 1930 – May 31, 1995) was a Jewish American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.
Elkin was born in...
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George Mills | ||
| 1983 | William Kennedy |
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William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, and make use of incidents...
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Ironweed | ||
| 1984 | Louise Erdrich |
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Karen Louise Erdrich, known as Louise Erdrich, (born July 6, 1954) is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Ojibwa and Chippewa) and also has German,...
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Love Medicine | ||
| 1985 | Anne Tyler |
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Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist.
Tyler is the eldest of four children. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of...
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The Accidental Tourist | ||
| 1986 | Reynolds Price |
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Reynolds Price (born February 1, 1933, as Edward Reynolds Price) is an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in...
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Kate Vaiden | ||
| 1987 | Philip Roth |
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Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 story collection Goodbye, Columbus, and has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: Roth's books have twice been awarded the...
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The Counterlife | ||
| 1988 | Bharati Mukherjee |
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Bharati Mukherjee (born July 27, 1940) is an award-winning Indian born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Of Bengali origin, Mukherjee was born in Calcutta (now...
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The Middleman and Other Stories | ||
| 1989 | E. L. Doctorow |
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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is an American author.
Edgar Lawrence ("E.L.") Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent. He attended city...
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Billy Bathgate | ||
| 1990 | John Updike |
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
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Rabbit At Rest | ||
| 1991 | Jane Smiley |
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Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B....
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A Thousand Acres | ||
| 1992 | Cormac McCarthy |
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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; born July 20, 1933) is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, ranging from the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. He...
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All the Pretty Horses | ||
| 1993 | Ernest Gaines |
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Ernest James Gaines (born 15 January 1933) is an American author. His works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese. Four of his works have been produced into...
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A Lesson Before Dying | ||
| 1994 | Carol Shields |
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Carol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, MA (née Warner) (June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor...
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The Stone Diaries | ||
| 1995 | Stanley Elkin |
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Stanley Elkin (May 11, 1930 – May 31, 1995) was a Jewish American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.
Elkin was born in...
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Mrs. Ted Bliss | ||
| 1996 | Gina Berriault |
Gina Berriault (January 1, 1926 – July 15, 1999), was an American novelist and short story writer.
Berriault was born in Long Beach, California to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a freelance writer and Berriault took her inspiration...
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Women in Their Beds | |||
| 1997 | Penelope Fitzgerald |
Penelope Knox (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer.
She was the daughter of Punch editor Edmund Knox and the niece of theologian and crime writer Ronald Knox, cryptographer...
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The Blue Flower | |||
| 1998 | Alice Munro |
Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Generally...
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The Love of a Good Woman: Stories | |||
| 1999 | Jonathan Lethem |
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Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American writer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lethem trained to be an artist before moving to California and devoting his time to writing. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work...
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Motherless Brooklyn | ||
| 2000 | Jim Crace |
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James "Jim" Crace (born 1 March 1946) is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife. They have two children, Thomas...
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Being Dead | ||
| 2001 | W. G. Sebald |
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W. G. (Winfried Georg) Maximilian Sebald (18 May 1944, Wertach im Allgäu – 14 December 2001, Norfolk, England) was a German writer and academic. At the time of his early death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of...
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Austerlitz | ||
| 2002 | Ian McEwan |
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Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL, (born 21 June 1948) is a Booker Prize-winning English novelist and screenwriter.
McEwan was born in Aldershot, the son of Rose Lilian Violet (née Moore) and David McEwan. He spent much of his childhood in East...
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Atonement | ||
| 2003 | Edward P. Jones |
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Edward P. Jones is an American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia.
Jones won both the Pen/Hemingway...
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The Known World | ||
| 2004 | Marilynne Robinson |
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Marilynne Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping (see 1980 in literature) won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her second novel,...
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Gilead | ||
| 2005 | E. L. Doctorow |
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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is an American author.
Edgar Lawrence ("E.L.") Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish descent. He attended city...
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The March | ||
| 2006 | Kiran Desai |
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Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. She...
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The Inheritance of Loss | ||
| 2007 | Junot Díaz |
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Junot Díaz (born 31 December 1968) is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at MIT. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | ||
| 2008 | Roberto Bolaño |
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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβerto βoˈlaɲo ˈaβalos]) (April 28, 1953 – July 15, 2003) was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), and...
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