Annal:1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
A Thousand Acres: A Novel
- 1992 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- 1991 NBCC–Fiction winner
- 1992 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- Score: 26.42
A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride, and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.
- 1992 PEN-faulkner winner
- 1992 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- Score: 16.42
In MAO II, Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence when he gets the chance to aid a hostage trapped in a basement in war-torn Beirut, a nightscape of Semtex explosives. Gray’s dangerous departure leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman…
