Annal:1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1972. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1972 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- Score: 10.22
Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents’ remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America’s western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he’s willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.
Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward’s investigation leads…
