Pulitzer Prize Class

Students in this class - expect to read! Choosing from a variety of Pulitzer Prize winning novels for fiction the class will read from a variety of novels selected by the Pulitzer Prize board since 1918. Novels read in past classes have been Alice Walker’s (1983) The Color Purple, Jhumpa Lahiri’s (2000) Interpreter of Maladies, Pearl S. Buck’s (1932) The Good Earth, and a variety of others chosen by the students for their final read. The class functions, as several students have expressed, “…like a book club.” Guided and independent reading of the novels, class discussions, and written essays of literary criticism are fundamentals of the class. Due to the adult themes present in many of these novels students will be dismissed if they cannot conduct themselves in a mature manner.