Heroism In The Household...

In which we consider the work by the women longlisted on the 1953 longlist...

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When I finished reading the war-focused longlist of 1952, I couldn't help but think of the way World War II reshaped what was considered important in fiction. If we look at the winners of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in the two decades after World War II, a majority of them are ‘war novels’—books that …