Harper Prize
The Harper Novel Prize was an award presented by Harper Brothers, a publisher in New York City, to the best novel by an "unnoticed" writer.[1] A number of the awarded books went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and many were adapted into films.
Winners
Winners of the Harper Prize included:[2]
- 1922-23: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins[3][4]
- 1925: Anne Parrish, The Perennial Bachelor
- 1927: Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait
- 1929: Julien Green, Leviathan
- 1931: Robert Raynolds, Brothers in the West
- 1933: Paul Horgan, The Fault of Angels
- 1935: Harold Lenoir Davis, Honey in the Horn
- 1937: Frederic Prokosch, The Seven Who Fled
- 1939: Vardis Fisher, Children of God
- 1941: Judith Kelly, Marriage is a Private Affair
- 1943: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
- 1945: Jo Sinclair, Wasteland
- 1947: Joseph Hitrec, Son of the Moon
- 1949: Max Steele, Debby
- 1955: Don Mankiewicz, The Trial
- 1957: Frank Norris, Tower In The West
- 1959: Robin White, Elephant Hill
- 1963: Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles
- 1965: C.D.B. Bryan, P.S. Wilkinson
See also
References
- ↑ Harvard Crimson, March 18, 1936 http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1936/3/18/harper-prize-novel-contest-is-announced/
- ↑ , The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Previous Winners, accessed 11/27/11.
- ↑ New York Times: "Books and Authors," September 2, 1923, accessed August 5, 2010
- ↑ New York Times: "Books and Authors," March 22, 1936, accessed August 5, 2010