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The Edge of Sadness

by Edwin O'Connor

Pulitzer Prize · 1962 · Winner
Literary FictionISBN 9798889434979

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1962Winner

About the Author

Edwin Greene O'Connor (1918–1968) was an American novelist, journalist, and radio commentator best known for his portrayals of Irish-American life, politicians, and priests in novels like The Last Hurrah (1956), adapted into a film starring Spencer Tracy, and The Edge of Sadness (1961), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962. Pulitzer.org

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