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A thorough investigation of our Nobel Laureates category, coupled with some fact checking at the Nobel Foundation web site, resulted in this definitive list of American Nobel Prize Winners in Literature: Toni Morrison (1993) - Well-known author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and several other amazing books. Czeslaw Milosz
(Poland/USA) (1980) - Polish-born poet who spent most of World War II living in Warsaw and writing for the underground press. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) - Won for his tragicomic tales of Jewish life in prewar Poland. Saul Bellow (1976) - Writes lucid, semi-autobiographical novels, the most recent of which is Ravelstein. John Steinbeck (1962) - Still sells thousands of books, including the high school staple, Of Mice and Men.
Ernest Hemingway (1954) - "Papa" wrote in his acceptance remarks, "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life." William Faulkner (1949) - The godfather of Southern literature explored his own imaginary territory, Yoknapatawpha County. Pearl S. Buck (1938) - The author of The Good Earth published over seventy books, many of them dealing with peasant life in rural China. Eugene
O'Neill (1936) - Wove the agony of his profoundly dysfunctional childhood into several classic plays, including Long Day's Journey into Night. Sinclair Lewis (1930) - The author of Elmer Gantry and Babbit wrote human comedies inspired by Balzac and Dickens.
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