IMHO, the 1950's are a golden decade of American fiction. Do you agree?
This is the 6th instalment of my chronology of American fiction. It is a list of novels, novellas & short story collections by American authors published in 1950-1959. There are 7 Pulitzer Prize winners & all 10 National Book Award winners as well as works by Nobel Prize winners Bellow, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck and I.B. Singer.
Click on the link to go to the previous instalment, which covers 1960-1969.
The source is "The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times" by Daniel S. Burt (2004).
The books by year are are:
1950: 1-23
1951: 24-42
1952: 43-62
1953: 63-79
1954: 80-98
1955: 99-118
1956: 119-136
1957: 137-156
1958: 157-173
1959: 174-200
