Annal:1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1973. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1973 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- Score: 10.23
The Optimist’s Daughter is Miss Welty’s work at its best, and reconfirms Mr. Warren’s general tribute, including the difficulty of analysis: Laurel Hand, long absent from the South, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better understanding of it and of herself and…
