Can You Match These Pulitzer Prize-Winning Authors To Their Work?

How Many Of These Classics Have You Read?
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Question 1/12

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She won her Pulitzer for Gone With the Wind:
Flannery O'Connor
Margaret Mitchell
Eudora Welty

Question 2/12

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He won one of his Pulitzers for A Streetcar Named Desire:
Edward Albee
Eugene O'Neill
Tennessee Williams

Question 3/12

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He won his for A Confederacy of Dunces, but died by suicide before both the publication and the award:
John Cheever
John Kennedy Toole
Martin Amis

Question 4/12

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He won his for The Old Man and the Sea:
Ernest Hemingway
John Dos Passos
Norman Mailer

Question 5/12

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He won two, but most critics will tell you they were for the wrong books:
Truman Capote
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck

Question 6/12

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She's won a few, including one for a fictionalized account of Marilyn Monroe's life, called Blonde.
Joyce Carol Oates
Flannery O'Connor
Ursula LeGuin

Question 7/12

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He won his for Lonesome Dove:
Louis Lamour
Larry McMurtry
Cormac McCarthy

Question 8/12

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He won his for The Hours:
Cormac McCarthy
Jonathan Frantzen
Michael Cunningham

Question 9/12

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He got one for Glengarry Glen Ross:
Saul Bellow
David Mamet
Edward Albee

Question 10/12

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He won one for The Young Man From Atlanta:
Horton Foote
Shelby Foote
Walker Percy

Question 11/12

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He got one for The Skin Of Our Teeth:
Horton Foote
Thornton Wilder
Tennessee Williams

Question 12/12

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She got one for Live or Die:
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Shirley Ann Grau
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C+, Did You Sleep Through Lit Class?

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Right!
You probably raise your hand to answer every question! You deserve a star by your name! You know your writers!

B+, Well, Aren't You Smart?

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Right!
You must be the teacher's pet! You probably do assignments without being asked! Smarty-pants!

A+, You Deserve An Award

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Right!
1
She won her Pulitzer for Gone With the Wind:
Flannery O'Connor
Margaret Mitchell
Eudora Welty
2
He won one of his Pulitzers for A Streetcar Named Desire:
Edward Albee
Eugene O'Neill
Tennessee Williams
3
He won his for A Confederacy of Dunces, but died by suicide before both the publication and the award:
John Cheever
John Kennedy Toole
Martin Amis
4
He won his for The Old Man and the Sea:
Ernest Hemingway
John Dos Passos
Norman Mailer
5
He won two, but most critics will tell you they were for the wrong books:
Truman Capote
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
6
She's won a few, including one for a fictionalized account of Marilyn Monroe's life, called Blonde.
Joyce Carol Oates
Flannery O'Connor
Ursula LeGuin
7
He won his for Lonesome Dove:
Louis Lamour
Larry McMurtry
Cormac McCarthy
8
He won his for The Hours:
Cormac McCarthy
Jonathan Frantzen
Michael Cunningham
9
He got one for Glengarry Glen Ross:
Saul Bellow
David Mamet
Edward Albee
10
He won one for The Young Man From Atlanta:
Horton Foote
Shelby Foote
Walker Percy
11
He got one for The Skin Of Our Teeth:
Horton Foote
Thornton Wilder
Tennessee Williams
12
She got one for Live or Die:
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Shirley Ann Grau