''Journey in the Dark'' is a 1943 novel by

Martin Flavin Martin Archer Flavin (November 2, 1883 – December 27, 1967) was an American playwright and novelist. Biography Flavin was born on November 2, 1883, in San Francisco, California. He was a Sigma Chi at the University of Chicago, which he atte ...

. It won both the 1943 Harper Prize and the 1944 Pulitzer Prize, and was printed as an

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. The ''

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'' called the book "a story of a boy from Iowa who becomes a business tycoon at the price of his integrity.”

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Photos of the first edition of ''Journey in the Dark''
1943 American novels Pulitzer Prize for the Novel-winning works Harper & Brothers books {{1940s-novel-stub