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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

by Robert Olen Butler

Pulitzer Prize · 1993 · Winner
Literary FictionISBN 9780802193896

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1993Winner

About the Author

Robert Olen Butler (born 1945) is an American fiction writer whose short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1993. His works, including novels like The Alleys of Eden and Perfume River, often draw from his experiences as a U.S. Army translator in Vietnam during 1969-1971. Read more →

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