The winner of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was James Gould Cozzens with Guard of Honor, his less dramatic novelization of what became known as the Freeman Field Mutiny.
However his biggest success and fame came from a 1957 novel titled By Love Possessed. A novel about 49 hours in the life of one man, a leading lawyer, Arthur Winner Jr., in a small town and the women he loves. His only #1 NY Times Bestseller, it spent nearly 6 months in the top spot. The novel was awarded the Howells prize in 1960, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous 5 years.
A recluse, the author did give an interview to TIME magazine in September of 1957 and was entitled "The Hermit of Lambertville".
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