1966

The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones

By Jesse Hill Ford

Original Publisher: Little, Brown

Current Publisher: Out of Print

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• Jesse Hill Ford for The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
• Peter Matthiessen for At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• James Merrill for The (Diblos) Notebook
• Flannery O'Connor for Everything that Rises Must Converge
• Harry Petrakis for Pericles on 31st Street

Fiction Winner That Year: Katherine Anne Porter for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction Judges That Year: Paul Horgan, J.F. Powers, Glenway Wescott

The Year in Literature:

• The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• Shmuel Agnon and Nelly Sachs won the Nobel Prize for literature.

More Information: The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones was made into a 1970 film of the same title directed by William Wyler and starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lola Falana, and Lee Majors.