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In 1974, no Pulitzer was awarded. Though the fiction jury unanimously selected the novel Gravity's Rainbow for the Prize, the Pulitzer Advisory Board overruled them—calling the book "unreadable," "turgid," and "obscene"—and opted to award no fiction prize that year.
TBH, I'm kind of with the advisory board on that one.