Which novelist won Pulitzer Prizes, John Braine or Thornton Wilder?
Thornton Niven Wilder
Title: The Jealous God
Passage: The Jealous God is a novel by John Braine which was first published in 1964.  Set in the early 1960s among the Irish Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30-year-old mummy's boy and his attempts at liberating himself from his domineering mother.  The title refers to the latter's wish that her "favourite" son, although already rather old for following his alleged vocation, become a clergyman.  It was said that it was John Braine's personal favourite novel of all those that he wrote and was finally filmed in 2005.
Title: Samuel Eliot Morison
Passage: Samuel Eliot Morison, (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular.  He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years.  He won Pulitzer Prizes for "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and "John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography" (1959).  In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962.  Morison wrote the popular "Oxford History of the American People" (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook "The Growth of the American Republic" (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.  Over the course of his distinguished career, Morison received eleven honorary doctoral degrees, and garnered numerous literary prizes, military honors, and national awards from both foreign countries and the United States, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Balzan Prize, the Legion of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Title: Charlotte Wilder
Passage: Charlotte Wilder (1898–1980) was an American poet and the eldest sister of author Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, Janet Wilder Dakin, and Amos Wilder.
Title: The Crying Game (novel)
Passage: The Crying Game is a 1968 novel by British novelist John Braine.  It is a satirical story about a conservative journalist whose life changes after he learns of a political scandal.
Title: John Braine
Passage: John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) was an English novelist.  Braine is usually listed among the Angry Young Men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.
Title: Room at the Top (1959 film)
Passage: Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine.  The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler.  It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by John and James Woolf.  The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston and Hermione Baddeley.
Title: 2011 Pulitzer Prize
Passage: The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 18, 2011. " The Los Angeles Times" won two prizes, including the highest honor for Public Service. " The New York Times" also won two awards.  No prize was handed out in the Breaking News category. " The Wall Street Journal" won an award for the first time since 2007.  Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" picked up the Fiction prize after already winning the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award.  Photographer Carol Guzy of "The Washington Post" became the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes.
Title: Room at the Top (novel)
Passage: Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain.  A film adaptation was made in 1959, followed in 2012 by a TV film.  John Minton's cover art from the first edition was restored and used on the new edition by Valancourt Books in 2013.
Title: Thornton Wilder
Passage: Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.  He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and for the two plays "Our Town" and "The Skin of Our Teeth" — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel "The Eighth Day".
Title: The Jealous God (film)
Passage: The Jealous God (2005) is a 1960s set feature film by British writer-director Steven Woodcock.  It is based on the novel by John Braine.  The opening scenes were filmed in the grammar school in Bradford where Braine was once a pupil.  Braine became famous in 1957 for his classic "Room at the Top", a book that shocked when first published because of how it exploded British class and sexual mores of the time.  There’s a clip from the Oscar-winning 1958 film version of "Room at the Top" in "The Jealous God", when Vincent and Laura are seen sitting in a cinema.  Allan Gill in his extraordinary movie debut, dazzles as inquisitive schoolboy #4.
John Braine Thornton Wilder