Lamb in His Bosom

1933 novel by Caroline Miller
First edition (Harper & Brothers)

Lamb in His Bosom is a 1933 novel by Caroline Miller. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel[1] in 1934. It also won the Prix Femina in 1934 and became an immediate best-seller.

The story of a poor white woman growing to maturity in the Pre-Civil War rural south. The personal and extended family struggles, and ups and downs of day-to-day living, in the rural culture. The author mastered the ability to express her thoughts with rural charm, naivety, with the vernacular dialect and cultural biases intact.

References

  1. ^ "Lamb in His Bosom, by Caroline Miller (Harper)". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

External links

  • First edition of "Lamb in his Bosom"
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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel from 1917–1947
1918–1925
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  • The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919)
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921)
  • Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (1922)
  • One of Ours by Willa Cather (1923)
  • The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (1924)
  • So Big by Edna Ferber (1925)


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1951–1975
1976–2000
2001–present


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