Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music. The prizes, administered by Columbia University, bestow on winners both literary prestige and a cash prize.

For years not listed, no award was made.

1918

His Family, Ernest Poole

1919

The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington

1921

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

1922

Alice Adams, Booth Tarkington

1923

One of Ours, Willa Cather

1924

The Able McLaughlins, Margaret Wilson

1925

So Big, Edna Ferber

1926

Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis

1927

Early Autumn, Louis Bromfield

1928

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder

1929

Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin

1930

Laughing Boy, Oliver La Farge

1931

Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes

1932

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

1933

The Store, T. S. Stribling

1934

Lamb in His Bosom, Caroline Miller

1935

Now in November, Josephine Winslow Johnson

1936

Honey in the Horn, Harold L. Davis

1937

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

1938

The Late George Apley, John Phillips Marquand

1939

The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1940

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

1942

In This Our Life, Ellen Glasgow

1943

Dragon's Teeth, Upton Sinclair

1944

Journey in the Dark, Martin Flavin

1945

A Bell for Adano, John Hersey

1947

All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

1948

Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener

1949

Guard of Honor, James Gould Cozzens

1950

The Way West, A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

1951

The Town, Conrad Richter

1952

The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk

1953

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

1955

A Fable, William Faulkner

1956

Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor

1958

A Death in the Family, James Agee

1959

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Robert Lewis Taylor

1960

Advise and Consent, Allen Drury

1961

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

1962

The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O'Connor

1963

The Reivers, William Faulkner

1965

The Keepers of the House, Shirley Ann Grau

1966

Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Anne Porter

1967

The Fixer, Bernard Malamud

1968

The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron

1969

House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday

1970

Collected Stories, Jean Stafford

1972

Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

1973

The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty

1975

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

1976

Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow

1978

Elbow Room, James Alan McPherson

1979

The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever

1980

The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer

1981

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

1982

Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike

1983

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

1984

Ironweed, William Kennedy

1985

Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie

1986

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

1987

A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor

1988

Beloved, Toni Morrison

1989

Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler

1990

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos

1991

Rabbit at Rest, John Updike

1992

A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

1993

A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler

1994

The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx

1995

The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields

1996

Independence Day, Richard Ford

1997

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Steven Millhauser

1998

American Pastoral, Philip Roth

1999

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

2000

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

2001

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

2002

Empire Falls, Richard Russo

2003

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

2004

The Known World, Edward P. Jones

2005

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

2006

March, Geraldine Brooks

2007

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

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