John Rathbone Oliver

[1] His novel Victim and Victor was a contender for the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but the award went to Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary.

Returning to the United States in 1915, he was chief medical officer for the Supreme Bench of Baltimore from 1917 to 1930 and was a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.

In 1929, Oliver's novel Victim and Victor was the first place choice of the jury committee to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The jury's chair Richard Burton already spoken favorably of the book in public, and premature press reports thought it had won.

[6] However, the Pulitzer committee rejected the recommendation in favor of Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary, and Burton declined reappointment to the jury in the future.