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The Harper Novel Prize was an award presented by Harper Brothers, an American publishing company located in New York City, New York.

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The award was presented to the best novel by an "a writer who hitherto had not found a wide audience". [1] A number of the awarded books went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and many were adapted into films.

Winners

Winners of the Harper Prize included: [2]

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