Elizabeth Strout has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her novel, "Olive Kitteridge."
The Pulitzer judges said the book "packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating."
Other books by Strout are Amy and Isabelle and Abide with Me.
Previous well-known winners: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry; The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx.
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