Which Upton Sinclair Lanny Budd novel won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943?

Upton Sinclair’s Lanny Budd novel Dragon’s Teeth won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943. It was published in 1942 and became the third book in Sinclair’s eleven-volume Lanny Budd series.

The novel covers the years 1929 to 1934, including the Nazi takeover of Germany. Its protagonist, Lanny Budd, is an art expert and socialist whose family connections place him close to powerful political and industrial figures. Sinclair used the series to dramatize major events in twentieth-century Europe and the United States.

The neighboring titles are genuine Lanny Budd novels, which makes the question easy to misread. World’s End began the series, Between Two Worlds preceded Dragon’s Teeth, and Wide Is the Gate followed it. The prize’s name was still Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943; it was renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948.