Which author won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Rabbit at Rest?

John Updike won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Rabbit at Rest.

Published in 1990, Rabbit at Rest is the fourth major novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, following Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit Is Rich. The story portrays Rabbit in late middle age as he spends time in Florida, worries about his health, and struggles with family tensions and the consequences of his earlier choices.

The Rabbit novels trace several decades of American life through one flawed, restless protagonist. Their settings and concerns change with the country: postwar mobility, political unrest, consumer prosperity, and the anxieties of aging all enter the sequence. Rabbit at Rest brings that long fictional biography toward its conclusion.

Updike had already won the Pulitzer for Rabbit Is Rich in 1982. That fact creates a common mix-up, because both novels belong to the same series. Rabbit at Rest was his second Pulitzer-winning Rabbit novel and completed the principal quartet.