Annal:1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1973. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
- 1973 NBA–Current Interest winner
- 1973 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 20.23
This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald’s own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam—into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks—and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. With a clarity and authority unrivaled by any book before it or since, Fire in the Lake shows how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam.
Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers: Volume 2 of Children of Crisis
- 1973 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.23
Since the late 1950’s, Robert Coles has been studying, living with, and, above all, listening to the American poor. The result is one of the most vigorous and searching social studies ever undertaken by one man in the United States. Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers is the second volume in Dr. Coles’s award-winning series, Children of Crisis. In it, he listens to three groups: the migrant workers who travel the eastern coast of this country, picking crops day after day; the sharecroppers and tenant farmers who live on isolated southern…
