The Harper Prize was an award introduced in 1923 by Harper & Brothers, an American publishing company located in New York City.
The award was presented to the best novel by an "a writer who hitherto had not found a wide audience".[1] A number of the awarded books won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and many were adapted into films.
The first winner of the prize in 1923 was Margaret Wilson, who won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.[2]
Winners
editWinners of the Harper Prize included:[3]
- 1922–1923: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins[4][5]
- 1925: Anne Parrish, The Perennial Bachelor
- 1927: Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait[6]
- 1929: Julien Green, Leviathan
- 1931: Robert Raynolds, Brothers in the West
- 1933: Paul Horgan, The Fault of Angels
- 1935: Harold Lenoir Davis, Honey in the Horn
- 1937: Frederic Prokosch, The Seven Who Fled
- 1939: Vardis Fisher, Children of God
- 1941: Judith Kelly, Marriage Is a Private Affair
- 1943: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
- 1945: Jo Sinclair, Wasteland
- 1947: Joseph Hitrec, Son of the Moon
- 1949: Max Steele, Debby
- 1955: Don Mankiewicz, Trial[7]
- 1957: Frank Norris, Tower in the West
- 1959: Robin White, Elephant Hill
- 1961: Herbert Lobsenz, Vangel Griffin
- 1963: Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles
- 1965: C. D. B. Bryan, P.S. Wilkinson
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "Harper Prize Novel Contest Is Announced". The Harvard Crimson. March 18, 1936. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
- ↑ "Timeline 1923 | The Harper Prize Novel is introduced..." HarperCollins Publishers. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
- ↑ Archived October 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Previous Winners. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
- ↑ "Books and Authors". The New York Times. September 2, 1923. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
- ↑ "Books and Authors". The New York Times. March 22, 1936. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
- ↑ Carter, John (August 28, 1927). "Glenway Wescott's Saga Of a Pioneer Family; 'The Grandmothers' Is a Broader and Less Cynical 'Spoon River'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 9, 2026.
- ↑ "Harper Novel Prize won by Mankiewicz". The New York Times. September 8, 1954. Retrieved May 9, 2026.