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A Fable and A Controversy
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A Fable and A Controversy

In which we look at the winner of the 1955 National Book Award and the Pulitzer, and the novel that everyone else thought was more deserving.

Hunter Mclendon
Apr 15
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Hi, Y’all! Glad You’re Here—

In 1955, William Faulkner became the first two-time winner for the National Book Award for Fiction. The book he won for that year, A Fable, was the first novel to come out after his Nobel Prize win, and is considered a major departure from his previous work. Where he was known for these Southern Gothic novels all taking plac…

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