An immediate national and international best-seller that was also well received by critics, The Bridge of San Luis Rey earned Thornton Wilder his first Pulitzer Prize. (He is still the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and… Read More ›
American modernist fiction
Analysis of John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra
John O’Hara derived the title of his first novel from W. Somerset Maugham’s 1933 play Sheppey, which features Death glibly describing the fate of a man who had tried to elude her: “I was astonished to see him in Baghdad,… Read More ›
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