Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1951
The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned Richter immediate acclaim as a historical novelist. It includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) and follows the Luckett family's migration from Pennsylvania to Southeastern Ohio. It starts when settler Sayward Luckett Wheeler becomes mother to her orphaned siblings on the frontier, and ends with the story of her youngest son Chancey, a journalist in the years before the Civil War. The Town won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize and received excellent reviews across the country.
- ISBN10 0553085301
- ISBN13 9780553085303
- Publish Date 1 August 1975
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English