num_pages: 357
description: In 1934, Caroline Miller's novel Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was the first novel by a Georgia author to win a Pulitzer, soon followed by Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind in 1937. In fact, Lamb was largely responsible for the discovery of Gone With the Wind; after reading Miller's novel, Macmillan editor Harold S. Latham sought other southern novels and authors, and found Margaret Mitchell.Caroline Miller was fascinated by the other Old South—not the romantic inhabitants of Gone With the Wind, but rather the poor people of the south Georgia backwoods, who never owned a slave or planned to fight a war. The story of Cean and Lonzo, a young couple who begin their married lives two decades before the Civil War, Lamb in His Bosom is a fascinating account of social customs and material realities among settlers of the Georgia frontier. At the same time, Lamb in His Bosom transcends regional history as Miller's quietly lyrical prose style pays poignant tribute to a woman's life lived close to nature—the nature outside her and the nature within.
language: English
title: Lamb in His Bosom
titlecomplete: Lamb in His Bosom
characters: Cean Smith
genres: Classics, Historical, Southern, The United States Of America, Civil War, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1705
places: Georgia
awards: awardedAt: -1136044800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Peachtree Publishers