Tuesday, February 23, 2010

1943 (Guess Who?)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair

No Nobel Prize for Literature awarded in 1943---the war perhaps?

Popular books published in 1943:

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Mere Christianity, CS Lewis
These Happy Golden Years (#8 in Little House series), Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham

Who's Next?

2 comments:

  1. Wow, quite a year for popular books! This is a good list to grab from for my reading list.

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  2. I have read The Little Prince! A girl I work with JUST TODAY finished Fountainhead. Last I heard from her, it was life-changing.

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