Andersonville
American novelist, 1904–1977. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956.
Andersonville is a 1955 novel by MacKinlay Kantor. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956.
On 2 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- MacKinlay Kantor
- First published
- 1955
- Length
- 768 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 1956
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 1956
- Genre
- Historical fiction, War and conflict
Is Andersonville worth reading?
2 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 1956) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 1956) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Andersonville
The edition we link to is the Plume Books paperback (2016), 768 pages.
- Publisher
- Plume Books (paperback, 2016)
- Pages
- 768
- ISBN
- 9780147515377
How critics, prizes and readers rate Andersonville
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 83% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work