Harper Prize
The Harper Novel Prize was an award presented by Harper Brothers, an American publishing company located in New York City, New York.
The award was presented to the best novel by an "a writer who hitherto had not found a wide audience".[1] A number of the awarded books went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and many were adapted into films.
Winners[]
Winners of the Harper Prize included:[2]
- 1922–1923: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins[3][4]
- 1925: Anne Parrish,
- 1927: Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait
- 1929: Julien Green,
- 1931: ,
- 1933: Paul Horgan,
- 1935: Harold Lenoir Davis, Honey in the Horn
- 1937: Frederic Prokosch,
- 1939: Vardis Fisher,
- 1941: ,
- 1943: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
- 1945: Jo Sinclair,
- 1947: ,
- 1949: ,
- 1955: Don Mankiewicz,
- 1957: ,
- 1959: ,
- 1963: Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles
- 1965: C. D. B. Bryan,
See also[]
- List of American literary awards
References[]
- ^ [1]. The Harvard Crimson. March 18, 1936.
- ^ [2], The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Previous Winners. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
- ^ "Books and Authors". The New York Times. September 2, 1923. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
- ^ "Books and Authors". The New York Times. March 22, 1936. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
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