In This Our Life (novel)

In This Our Life
First edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)
AuthorEllen Glasgow
Publication date
January 1, 1941
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Novel (1942)

In This Our Life is a 1941 novel by the American writer Ellen Glasgow. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942.[1] The title is a quote from the sonnet sequence Modern Love by George Meredith: "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul/ When hot for certainties in this our life!"

  1. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 492. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.