Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (August 11, 1902 Chicago, Illinois – August 18, 1991 Carol Stream, Illinois) was an American editorial cartoonist.
 He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public.
The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and based in the U.S. city of Lexington, Kentucky.
 According to the "1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook", the "Herald-Leader"'s paid circulation is the second largest in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
 The newspaper has won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
 It had also been a finalist in six other Pulitzer awards in the 22-year period up until its sale in 2006, a record that was unsurpassed by any mid-sized newspaper in the United States during the same time frame.
James Phinney Baxter III (February 15, 1893 in Portland, Maine – June 17, 1975 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book "Scientists Against Time" (1946).
 He was also the author of "The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship" (1933).
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.
 He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
 He founded the literary journal "The Southern Review" with Cleanth Brooks in 1935.
 He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel "All the King's Men" (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.
 He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
Ruth Moore (1903–1989) was an important Maine author of the twentieth century.
 She is best known for her honest portrayals of Maine people and evocative descriptions of the state.
 Now primarily thought of as a regional writer, Moore was a significant literary figure on the national stage during her career.
 Her second novel "Spoonhandle" spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in the company of George Orwell, W. Somerset Maugham and Robert Penn Warren.
 In her time, Moore was hailed as "New England's only answer to Faulkner".
Carl Frederick Buechner (born July 11, 1926) is an American writer and theologian.
 He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books.
 His work encompasses different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays and sermons, and his career has spanned six decades.
 Buechner's books have been translated into many languages for publication around the world.
 He is best known for his works "A Long Day's Dying" (his first work, published in 1950); "The Book of Bebb", a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979; "Godric", a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981; "Brendan", a second novel narrating a saint's life, published in 1987; "Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner" (1992); and his autobiographical works "The Sacred Journey" (1982), "Now and Then" (1983), "Telling Secrets" (1991), and "The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found" (1999).
 He has been called "Major talent" and "...a very good writer indeed" by "the New York Times", and "one of our most original storytellers" by USA Today.
 Annie Dillard (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek") says: "Frederick Buechner is one of our finest writers."
The Winecoff Hotel fire of December 7, 1946, was the deadliest hotel fire in United States history, killing 119 hotel occupants, including the hotel's owners.
 Located at 176 Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Winecoff Hotel was advertised as "absolutely fireproof".
 While the hotel's steel structure was indeed protected against the effects of fire, the hotel's interior finishes were combustible, and the building's exit arrangements consisted of a single stairway serving all fifteen floors.
 All of the hotel's occupants above the fire's origin on the third floor were trapped, and the fire's survivors either were rescued from upper-story windows or jumped into nets held by firemen.
 The fire was notable for the number of victims who jumped to their deaths.
 A photograph of one survivor's fall won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
 The fire – which followed the June 5, 1946, La Salle Hotel fire in Chicago (with 61 fatalities), and the June 19, 1946, Canfield Hotel fire in Dubuque, Iowa (with 19 fatalities) – spurred significant changes in North American building codes, most significantly requiring multiple protected means of egress and self-closing fire-resistive doors for guest rooms in hotels.
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
 It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year.
 As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.
 (No Novel prize was awarded in 1917; the first was awarded in 1918.)
Arnold Hardy (February 2, 1922 – December 5, 2007) was an American amateur photographer who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
Scientists Against Time is a book by James Phinney Baxter III published in 1946 by Little, Brown and Company which won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Question: What was the second novel of the author, who was held in the same esteem as the man who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for "All the King's Men?"
Answer: Spoonhandle