Who wrote The Reivers, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

William Faulkner wrote The Reivers, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Published in 1962, The Reivers is a comic coming-of-age novel set in the American South in 1905. Its young narrator, Lucius Priest, travels from Mississippi to Memphis with Boon Hogganbeck and Ned McCaslin after borrowing a family automobile.

The book was Faulkner’s final novel published during his lifetime. It differs in tone from some of his darker works, using humor and adventure while still exploring race, class, responsibility, and the changing South. The title refers to people who steal or take what is not theirs, echoing the novel’s playful but morally complicated journey.

A frequent mix-up is assuming Faulkner won the Pulitzer only once. He also won for A Fable in 1955. The Reivers was adapted into a 1969 film starring Steve McQueen, Mitch Vogel, and Sharon Farrell.