Scarlet Sister Mary

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Scarlet Sister Mary is a 1928 novel by Julia Peterkin. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1929.

It was called obscene and banned at the public library in Gaffney, a South Carolina town. The Gaffney Ledger newspaper, however, serially published the complete book.

Dr. Richard S. Burton, the chairperson of Pulitzer's fiction-literature jury, recommended that the first prize go to the novel Victim and Victor by Dr.John B. Oliver. His nomination was superseded by the School of Journalism's choice of Peterkin's book. Evidently in protest, Burton resigned from the jury.

[edit] References

• "Burton Quits Jury on Pulitzer Award", The New York Times, May 17, 1929, p. 12.
• Scarlet Sister Mary, Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1928,
• First Edition of Scarlet Sister Mary

Preceded by The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Pulitzer Prize for the Novel 1929

Succeeded by Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge

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