Willa Cather Pulitzer Prize Winner One of Ours Life and Letters of Walter H. Page Alice Adams A Daughter of the Middle Border Anna Christie Miss Lulu Bett Age of Innocence Americanization of Edward Bok Education

Ernest Poole's 1917 novel "His Family" was voted the most significant among the works published that year by the jury selecting titles for The National Arts Club Exhibit, offering a moving portrait of a New York family. Carl Sandburg's 1918 poetry collection "Cornhuskers" earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.

In his 1918 work "The Education of Henry Adams," the author suggests that for a young, active-minded man, the primary role of a teacher should be to provide mastery of essential tools. The subject of education, the young man himself, is a form of energy, with the goal being the economization of his force - partly clearing away obstacles, partly direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be discarded. The "manikin" has value as a measure of motion, proportion, and human condition, to be treated as though it had life.

The 1921 Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography "The Americanization of Edward Bok" chronicles a Dutch boy's journey fifty years after his emigration. Edith Wharton's 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" depicts the social dynamics of New York City's upper class in the 1870s, where heredity and family connections outweighed occupation or ability, and reputation was paramount.

Zona Gale's 1920 novel "Miss Lulu Bett" tells the story of a household drudge whose life unexpectedly finds romance, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. Hamlin Garland's 1921 "A Daughter of the Middle Border" continues his intimate social history of Midwestern America, blending autobiography and the zest of a novel, and earning the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Booth Tarkington's 1921 work "Alice Adams" portrays a family struggling to keep up with the wealthy in their town, while Willa Cather's 1922 novel "One of Ours" explores the quintessentially American restlessness of a young man seeking redemption on a frontier bloodier and more distant than his forefathers had tamed.

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