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Fiction Pulitzers
Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction 1917-Present
Date | Name | Work |
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1917 | blank | blank |
1918 | Ernest Pole | His Family |
1919 | Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons |
1920 | blank | blank |
1921 | Edith Wharton | The Age Of Innocence |
1922 | Booth Tarkington | Alice Adams |
1923 | Willa Cather | One of Ours |
1924 | Margaret Wilson | The Able McLaughlins |
1925 | Edna Ferber | So Big |
1926 | Sinclair Lewis | Arrowsmith (declined) |
1927 | Louis Bromfield | Early Autumn |
1928 | Thorton Wilder | The Bridge to San Luis Rey |
1929 | Julia Peterkin | Scarlet Sister Mary |
1930 | Oliver LaFarge | Laughing Boy |
1931 | Margaret Ayer Barnes | Years of Grace |
1932 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth |
1933 | T. S. Stribling | The Store |
1934 | Caroline Miller | Lamb in His Bosom |
1935 | Josephine Winslow Johnson | Now in November |
1936 | Harold L. Davis | Honey in the Horn |
1937 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind |
1938 | John Phillips Marquand | The Late George Apley |
1939 | Majorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling |
1940 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
1941 | blank | blank |
1942 | Ellen Glasgow | In This Our Life |
1943 | Upton Sinclair | Dragon's Teeth |
1944 | Martin Flavin | Journey in the Dark |
1945 | John Hersey | A Bell for Adani |
1946 | blank | blank |
1947 | Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men |
1948 | James A. Michener | Tales of South Pacific |
1949 | James Gould Cozzens | Guard of Honor |
1950 | A. B. Guthrie Jr | The Way West |
1951 | Conrad Ritcher | The Town |
1952 | Herman Wouk | The Cane Mutiny |
1953 | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
1954 | blank | blank |
1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable |
1956 | MacKinlay Kantor | Andersonville |
1957 | blank | blank |
1958 | James Agee | A Death in the Family |
1959 | Robert Lewis Taylor | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters |
1960 | Allen Drury | Advise and Consent |
1961 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
1962 | Edwin O'Connor | The Edge of Sadness |
1963 | William Faulkner | The Reivers |
1964 | blank | blank |
1965 | Shirley Ann Grau | The Keepers of The House |
1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | Collected Short Stories |
1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer |
1968 | William Styron | The Confession of Nat Turner |
1969 | N. Scott Momaday | House Made of Dawn |
1970 | Jean Stafford | Collected Stories |
1971 | blank | blank |
1972 | Wallace Stegner | Angle of Repose |
1973 | Eudora Welty | The Optimist Daughter |
1974 | blank | blank |
1975 | Michael Shaara | The Killer Angels |
1976 | Saul Bellow | Humboldt's Gift |
1977 | blank | blank |
1978 | James Alan McPherson | Elbow Room |
1979 | John Cheever | The Stories |
1980 | Normal Mailer | The Executioner's Song |
1981 | John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces |
1982 | John Updike | Rabbit Is Rich |
1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
1984 | William Kennedy | Ironweed |
1985 | Alison Lurie | Foreign Affairs |
1986 | Larry McMurty | Lonesome Dove |
1987 | Peter Taylor | A Summons to Memphis |
1988 | Toni Morrison | Beloved |
1989 | Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons |
1990 | Oscar Hijuelo | The Mambo King Plays Songs of Love |
1991 | John Updike | Rabbit at Rest |
1992 | Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres |
1993 | Robert Olden Butler | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountains |
1994 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News |
1995 | Carol Shields | Stone Diaries |
1996 | Richard Ford | Independence Day |
1997 | Steven Millhauser | Martin Dressler |
1998 | Philip Roth | American Pastoral |
1999 | Michael Cunningham | The Hours |
2000 | Jhumpha Lahiri | Interpreter of Maladies |
2001 | Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier |
2002 | Richard Russo | Empire Dalls |
2003 | Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex |
2004 | Edward P. Jones | The Known World |
2005 | Marilynne Robinson | Gilead |
2006 | Geraldine Brooks | March |
2007 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road |
2008 | Junot Diaz | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
2009 | Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
2010 | Paul Harding | Tinkers |
2011 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan |
2012 | blank | blank |
2013 | Adam Johnson | The Orphan Master's Son |
2014 | Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch |
2015 | Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See |
2016 | Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Sympathizer |
2017 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad |
2018 | Andrew Sean Reer | Less |
2019 | Richard Powers | The Overstory |
2020 | Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys |
2021 | Louise Erdrich | The Night Watchman |
2022 | Joshua Cohen | The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family |