1957

These Thousand Hills

By A.B. Guthrie, Jr.

Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Current Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Fiction Finalists That Year: 

• Nelson Algren for A Walk on the Wild Side
• James Baldwin for Giovanni's Room
• Saul Bellow for Seize the Day
• B.J. Chute for Greenwillow
• A.B. Guthrie for These Thousand Hills
• John Hersey for A Single Pebble
• John Hunt for Generations of Men
• Edwin O'Connor for The Last Hurrah
• J.F. Powers for The Presence of Grace
• Elizabeth Spencer for The Voice at the Back Door
• James Thurber for Further Fables for Our Time

Fiction Winner That Year: Wright Morris for The Field of Vision

Fiction Judges That Year: Robert Gorham Davis, Leslie Fiedler, Oliver LaFarge, W.G. Rogers, Peter Taylor

The Year in Literature:

• The Pulitzer Prize was not given for fiction.
• Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for literature.

More Information:

• Guthrie was born Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. but preferred to be called Bud.
• Guthrie won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Way West in 1950.