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". 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.
Winners Winners of the Harper Prize included: , The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Previous Winners. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
1922–1923: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins"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. 1925: Anne Parrish, The Perennial Bachelor 1927: Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait 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 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 List of American literary awards
References
External links Good Reads list of winners