1974

Searches and Seizures

By Stanley Elkin

Original Publisher: Random House

Current Publisher: David R. Godine; Open Road Integrated Media (ebook)

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• Doris Betts for Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories
• John Cheever for The World of Apples
• Ellen Douglas for Apostles of Light
• Stanley Elkin for Searches and Seizures
• John Gardner for Nickel Mountain
• John Leonard for Black Conceit
• Thomas McGuane for Ninety-Two in the Shade
• Wilfrid Sheed for People Will Always Be Kind
• Gore Vidal for Burr
• Joy Williams for State of Grace

Fiction Winner That Year: Thomas Pynchon for Gravity’s Rainbow and Isaac Bashevis Singer for A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

Fiction Judges That Year: Donald Barthelme, James Boatwright, Truman Capote, Timothy G. Foote, Cynthia Ozick

The Year in Literature:

• The Pulitzer Prize was not given for fiction.
• Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson won the Nobel Prize for literature.

More Information: Elkin was a Fiction Finalist two other times: in 1972 for The Dick Gibson Show and in 1991 for The MacGuffin.