Award-Winning Fiction: Pulitzer Prize (fiction)

Awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author.  This guide provides a list of just the most recent winners.  Visit the award website to view all winners and any subcategory winners.

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1996        Independence Day. Richard Ford. PS3556.O713.I53 1996

1995        The Stone Diaries. Carol Shields. PR9199.3.S514.S76 1995

1994        The Shipping News. E. Annie Proulx. PS3566.R697.S4 1993

1993        A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. Robert Olen Butler. PS3552.U8278.G66 2001

1992        A Thousand Acres.  Jane Smiley. PS3569.M39.T47 1996

1991        Rabbit at Rest. John Updike. PS3571.P4.R23 1990

1990        The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Oscar Hijuelos. PS3558.I376.M36 1990 

1989        Breathing Lessons. Anne Tyler. PS3570.Y45.B74 1988

1988        Beloved.  Toni Morrison. PS3563.O8749.B4 1987

1987        A Summons to Memphis. Peter Taylor. PS3539.A9633.S8 1986

1986        Lonesome Dove. Larry McMurtry. PS3563.A319.L6 1985

1985        Foreign Affairs. Alison Lurie. PS3562.U7.F6 1984

1984        Ironweed. William Kennedy. PS3561.E428.I7 1983

1983        The Color Purple. Alice Walker. PS3573.A425.C6 1982 & PS3573.A425.C6 1985

1982        Rabbit Is Rich.  John Updike. PS3571.P4.R25 1981

1981        A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy O’Toole. PS3570.O54.C66 1995

1980        The Executioner’s Song. Norman Mailer. PS3525.A4152.E89 1998

1979        The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever. PS3505.H6428.A7

1978        Elbow Room. James Alan McPherson. PS3563.A325.E4 1983

1977        No Award

1976        Humboldt’s Gift. Saul Bellow. PS3503.E4488.H8

1975        The Killer Angels. Michael Shaara. PS3569.H2.K44 1974

1974        No Award

1973        The Optimist’s Daughter. Eudora Welty. PS3545.E6.O6 2002

1972        Angle of Repose. Wallace Stegner. P3537.T316.A8

1971        No Award

1970        The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford. Jean Stafford. PS3569.T2.A6 1992

1969        House Made of Dawn.  N. Scott Momaday. PS3563.O47.H6 1977

1968        The Confessions of Nat Turner. William Styron. PS3569.T9.C6 1967

1967        The Fixer. Bernard Malamud. PS3563.A4.F4 1966

1966        The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Katherine Anne Porter. PS3531.O752.A6 1979

1965        The Keepers of the House. Shirley Ann Grau. PZ4.G775KE

1964        No Award

1963        The Reivers.  William Faulkner. PS3511.A86.R38 1962a

1962        The Edge of Sadness. Edwin O’Connor.

1961        To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee. PZ3.L4778to

1960        Advise and Consent. Allen Drury. PZ3.D794ad 

1959        The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. Robert Lewis Taylor.

1958        A Death in the Family. James Agee. PS3501.G35.D43 1998

1957        No Award

1956        Andersonville. MacKinlay Kantor. PS3521.A47.A7 1955a

1955        A Fable. William Faulkner. PS3511.A86.F2

1954        No Award

1953        The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway. PS3515.E370 & PS3515.E37O.C.2

1952        The Caine Mutiny. Herman Wouk. PZ3.W923ca 1973

1951        The Town. Conrad Richter. PS3535.I429.T6

1950        The Way West.  A. B. Guthrie, Jr. PZ3.G95876WAY

1949        Guard of Honor. James Gould Cozzens.

1948        Tales of the South Pacific. James A. Michener. PS3525.I19.T3 1984

1947        All the King’s Men. Robert Penn Warren. PS3545.A748.A5

1946        No Award

1945        A Bell for Adano. John Hersey. PS3515.E7715.B4

1944        Journey in the Dark. Martin Flavin.

1943        Dragon’s Teeth. Upton Sinclair.

1942        In This Our Life. Ellen Glasgow.

1941        No Award

1940        The Grapes of Wrath.  John Steinbeck. PS3537.T3234.G8 1986

1939        The Yearling.  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. PZ3.R259ye

1938        The Late George Apley. John Phillips Marquand.

1937        Gone With the Wind. Margaret Mitchell . PS3525.I972.G6 1975

1936        Honey in the Horn. Harold L. Davis.

1935        Now in November. Josephine Winslow Johnson.

1934        Lamb in His Bosom. Caroline Miller.

1933        The Store. T.S. Stribling.

1932        The Good Earth.  Pearl S. Buck PS3503.U198 1939

1931        Years of Grace. Margaret Ayer Barnes.

1930        Laughing Boy. Oliver La Farge. PZ3.L129lau

1929        Scarlet Sister Mary.  Julia Peterkin.

1928        The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Thornton Wilder. PS3545.I345.B7 2003

1927        Early Autumn. Louis Bromfield.

1926        Arrowsmith. Sinclair Lewis. PS3523.E94.A6 2002

1925        So Big. Edna Ferber.

1924        The Able McLaughlins. Margaret Wilson.

1923        One of Ours. Willa Cather.

1922        Alice Adams. Booth Tarkington.

1921        The Age of Innocence.  Edith Wharton. PS3545.H16.A6 1985

1920        No Award

1919        The Magnificent Ambersons. Booth Tarkington. PS2972.M25 1998

1918        His Family. Ernest Poole.