Shelter Island Public Library (map) 37 North Ferry Road Shelter Island, NY, 11964 United States ✚ gCal ✚ iCal Empire Falls, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, tells the story of Miles Roby who runs the Empire Grill in a small, blue-collar Maine town. With a rich cast of characters, Empire Falls is a poignant and funny slice of small town life.