More P info learned while hunting somethin' else

[Mark Kohut]

Did we all know that "The Crying of Lot 49" was on the short list to
win the Pulitzer Prize?  Along with "Giles Goat Boy" and a Percy novel and a few others to note.

http://books.google.com/books?id=5ca0_QuvflQC&pg=PR55&dq=william+faulkner+awards+for+first+novel&lr=&ei=GC0RS5edKZrKyQSgzdDlDA#v=onepage&q=william%20faulkner%20awards%20for%20first%20novel&f=false

A...and, scroll along and you will see a succint summary of the Pulitzer story for 1974...including the three judges, one of whom was Eliz Hardwick who, I bet, is the one with quoted over-the-top praise for GR....'cause I remember a very embracing essay on TRP by her in one of her books....