id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Wikipedia .html text/html 4650 643 79 In 31 years under the "Novel" name, the prize was awarded 27 times; in its first 69 years to 2016 under the "Fiction" name, 62 times. It has never been shared by two authors.[2] Four writers have won two prizes each in the Fiction category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. While the Pulitzer Board initially intended to give the award to the jury's third choice, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year.[3][5] "Pulitzer Prize for the Novel". The Pulitzer Prizes: A History of the Awards in Books, Drama, Music, and Journalism, Based on the Private Files Over Six Decades. Novel/Fiction Awards 1917–1994: From Pearl S. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners. Official website for Pulitzer Prize: for the Novel and for Fiction ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1022.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1022.txt