No Fiction Pulitzer Prize for 2012: Judges “Couldn’t Agree”

Monday, April 16, 2012
For the first time since 1977, no Pulitzer Prize will be awarded in the coveted fiction category because, according to The Daily Beast, judges “couldn’t agree” on the winner.The field wasn’t large, with only three books making the finals: Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson, Swamplandia! by Karen Russell and David Foster Wallace’s posthumous The Pale King.Since the the Pulitzer prizes began in 1918,