Which novel by John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982?

John Updike’s novel Rabbit Is Rich won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982.

Published in 1981, Rabbit Is Rich is the third novel in Updike’s four-book series about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Harry is now middle-aged and financially comfortable, helping run his father-in-law’s Toyota dealership in the fictional Pennsylvania city of Brewer. His prosperity has not solved his problems: his marriage, his relationship with his son Nelson, and his persistent restlessness all remain unstable.

The novel examines American affluence, consumer culture, family conflict, and the uneasy transition from the 1960s into the economic and political atmosphere of the early 1980s. It also won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1982 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1981.

The neighboring titles are genuine Rabbit novels but won no Pulitzer for that year. Rabbit, Run begins the sequence, Rabbit Redux is the second volume, and Rabbit at Rest concludes it. That final book later won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.