Edward O’Connor wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
May 7, 1962
O’Connor receives the award for his novel The Edge of Sadness. He is the first Boston writer to win the fiction award since John P. Marquand in 1938.
Sources
- Duffy, Charles F.
O’Connor receives the award for his novel The Edge of Sadness. He is the first Boston writer to win the fiction award since John P. Marquand in 1938.