Fiction, Novel, Short Story
- 2007 — John Updike
- 2001 — Philip Roth
- 1995 — William Maxwell
- 1989 — Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1982 — Bernard Malamud
- 1978 — Peter Taylor
- 1977 — Saul Bellow
- 1972 — Eudora Welty
- 1962 — William Faulkner
- 1957 — John Dos Passos
- 1952 — Thornton Wilder
- 1944 — Willa Cather
- 1933 — Booth Tarkington
- 1929 — Edith Wharton
- 1924 — Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
- 1915 — William Dean Howells
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Famous quotes containing the words short and/or story:
“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nations heart, the excision of its memory.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)