Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,* 1918-2005

Year Author (Dates) Prize Work
2005 Marilynne Robinson (1947- ) Gilead (2004)
2004 Edward P. Jones (1950- ) The Known Word (2003)
2003 Jeffrey Eugenides (1960- ) Middlesex (2002)
2002 Richard Russo (1949- ) Empire Falls (2001)
2001 Michael Chabon (1963- ) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
     
2000 Jhumpa Lahiri (1967- ) Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
1999 Michael Cunningham (1945- ) The Hours (1998)
1998 Philip Roth (1933- ) American Pastoral (1997)
1997 Steven Millhauser (1943- ) Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996)
1996 Richard Ford (1944- ) Independence Day (1995)
1995 Carol Shields (1935- ) The Stone Diaries (1994)
1994 E. Annie Proulx (1935- ) The Shipping News (1993)
1993 Robert Olen Butler (1945- ) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories (1992)
1992 Jane Smiley (1949- ) A Thousand Acres (1991)
1991 John Updike (1932- ) Rabbit at Rest (1990)
     
1990 Oscar Hijeulos (1951- ) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989)
1989 Ann Tyler (1941- ) Breathing Lessons (1988)
1988 Toni Morrison (1931- ) Beloved (1987)
1987 Peter Taylor (1917-1994) A Summons to Memphis (1986)
1986 Larry McMurtry (1936- ) Lonesome Dove (1985)
1985 Alison Lurie (1926- ) Foreign Affairs (1984)
1984 William Kennedy (1928- ) Ironweed (1983)
1983 Alice Walker (1944- ) The Color Purple (1982)
1982 John Updike (1932- ) Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
1981 John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) A Confederacy of Dunces** (1980)
     
1980 Norman Mailer (1923- ) The Executioner's Song (1979)
1979 John Cheever (1912-1982) The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
1978 James Alan McPherson (1943- ) Elbow Room: Stories (1977)
1977 No Award  
1976 Saul Bellow (1915- ) Humboldt's Gift (1975)
1975 Michael Shaara (1929-1988) The Killer Angels (1974)
1974 No Award  
1973 Eudora Welty (1909- ) The Optimist's Daughter (1972)
1972 Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) Angle of Repose (1971)
1971 No Award  
     
1970 Jean Stafford (1915-1979) Collected Stories (1969)
1969 N. Scott Momaday (1934- ) House Made of Dawn (1968)
1968 William Styron (1925- ) The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
1967 Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) The Fixer (1966)
1966 Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965)
1965 Shirley Ann Grau (1929- ) The Keepers of the House (1964)
1964 No Award  
1963 William Faulkner (1897-1962) The Reivers (1962)
1962 Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968) The Edge of Sadness (1961)
1961 Harper Lee (1926- ) To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
     
1960 Allen Drury (1918- ) Advise and Consent (1959)
1959 Robert Lewis Taylor (1912- ) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1958)
1958 James Agee (1909-1955) A Death in the Family (1957)
1957 No Award  
1956 MacKinlay Kantor (1904-1977) Andersonville (1955)
1955 William Faulkner (1897-1962) A Fable (1954)
1954 No Award  
1953 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
1952 Herman Wouk (1915- ) The Caine Mutiny (1951)
1951 Conrad Richter (1890-1968) The Town (1950)
     
1950 A. B. Gutherie, Jr. (1901-1991) The Way West (1949)
1949 James Gould Cozzens (1903-1978) Guard of Honor (1948)
1948 James A. Michener (1907?- ) Tales of the South Pacific (1947)
1947 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) All the King's Men (1946)
1946 No Award  
1945 John Hersey (1914-1993) A Bell for Adano (1944)
1944 Martin Flavin (1883-1967) Journey in the Dark (1943)
1943 Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) Dragon's Teeth (1942)
1942 Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) In This Our Life (1941)
1941 No Award  
     
1940 John Steinbeck (1902-1968) The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) The Yearling (1938)
1938 John Phillips Marquand (1893-1960) The Late George Apley (1937)
1937 Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) Gone with the Wind (1936)
1936 Harold L. Davis (1896-1960) Honey in the Horn (1935)
1935 Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910-1990) Now in November (1934)
1934 Caroline Pafford Miller (1903-1992) Lamb in His Bosom (1933)
1933 T. S. Stribling (1881-1965) The Store (1932)
1932 Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) The Good Earth (1931)
1931 Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886-1967) Years of Grace (1930)
     
1930 Oliver La Farge (1901-1963) Laughing Boy (1929)
1929 Julia Peterkin (1880-1961) Scarlet Sister Mary (1928)
1928 Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
1927 Louis Bromfield (1896-1956) Early Autumn (1926)
1926 Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Arrowsmith (1925)
1925 Edna Ferber (1887-1968) So Big (1924)
1924 Margaret Wilson (1882-1973) The Able McLaughlins (1923)
1923 Willa Cather (1873-1947) One of Ours (1922)
1922 Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) Alice Adams (1921)
1921 Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Age of Innocence (1920)
     
1920 No Award  
1919 Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)
1918 Ernest Poole (1880-1950) His Family (1917)
  *Prior to 1948, award was for novels only. **Published posthumously.

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