As the Pulitzer gets less and less worth winning.
Another take on Pulitzers....
In
1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first
American author to be awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature. The award reflected his ground-breaking work in the
1920s on books such as
Main Street,
Babbitt, and
Arrowsmith. He was also awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for 'Arrowsmith', but declined it because he believed that the Pulitzer was meant for books that celebrated American wholesomeness and his novels, which were quite critical, should not be awarded the prize.