Annal:1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1986. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1986 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- 1986 PEN-faulkner finalist
- 1985 NBCC–Fiction finalist
- Score: 22.36
A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West—legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settiers—in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.
Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana—and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream—the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.
Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite understanding (or wanting to understand) each other’s deepest emotions. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weaknesses, and not many of his own. He is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, and…
The Accidental Tourist: A Novel
- 1985 NBCC–Fiction winner
- 1986 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- 1986 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- Score: 22.35
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular world–and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.
- 1986 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- Score: 6.36
Continental Drift is an American masterpiece about innocence and evil by one of the most important novelists writing today.
