1980 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner
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The Executioner’s Song
Norman Mailer
Reconstructs the crime and fate of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer who sought his own execution in Utah, based on taped interviews with relatives, friends, lawyers, and law-enforcement officials….
1980 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Shortlist
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Birdy
William Wharton
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