{"id":92,"date":"2023-01-26T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T13:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/?p=92"},"modified":"2023-01-29T12:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T18:40:02","slug":"award-winning-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/01\/26\/award-winning-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/13-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194\" width=\"601\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/13-1.jpg 502w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2023\/01\/13-1-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Howard Rambsy II<br><br>1953: Ralph Ellison\u2019s Invisible Man (1952) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction<br>1978: James Alan McPherson\u2019s Elbow Room* (1977) \u2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<br>1983: Alice Walker\u2019s The Color Purple (1982) \u2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<br>1983: Alice Walker\u2019s The Color Purple (1982) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction<br>1988: Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved (1987) \u2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<br>1990: Charles Johnson\u2019s Middle Passage (1990) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction<br>1991: Ben Okri\u2019s The Famished Road (1991) \u2013 Booker Prize<br>2004: Edward P. Jones\u2019s The Known World (2003) \u2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<br>2011: Jesmyn Ward\u2019s Salvage the Bones (2011) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction<br>2013: James McBride\u2019s The Good Lord Bird (2013) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction<br>2015: Marlon James\u2019s A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) \u2013 Booker Prize<br>2016: Paul Beatty\u2019s The Sellout (2015) \u2013 Booker Prize<br>2016: Colson Whitehead\u2019s The Underground Railroad (2016) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction<br>2017: Colson Whitehead\u2019s The Underground Railroad (2016) \u2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<br>2017: Jesmyn Ward\u2019s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction<br>2019: Bernardine Evaristo\u2019s Girl, Woman, Other (2019) \u2013 Booker Prize<br>2020: Colson Whitehead\u2019s The Nickel Boys (2019) \u2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<br>2021: Jason Mott\u2019s Hell of a Book (2021) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction<br><br>*short story collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Howard Rambsy II 1953: Ralph Ellison\u2019s Invisible Man (1952) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction1978: James Alan McPherson\u2019s Elbow Room* (1977) \u2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1983: Alice Walker\u2019s The Color Purple (1982) \u2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1983: Alice Walker\u2019s The Color Purple (1982) \u2013 National Book Award for Fiction1988: Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved (1987) \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/2023\/01\/26\/award-winning-fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Award-winning fiction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-literary-history","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/briefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}