Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Wikipedia Pulitzer Prize for Fiction From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search American award for distinguished novels Pulitzer Prize Joseph Pulitzer Pulitzers by year Winners Journalism Reporting Breaking News Investigative Explanatory Local National International Audio Writing Feature Editorial Photography Breaking News Feature Other Commentary Criticism Editorial Cartooning Public Service Former Beat Reporting Correspondence Photography Reporting Letters Drama Music Biography / Autobiography Fiction General Nonfiction History Poetry Drama Music Special Citations and Awards v t e The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[1] (No Novel prize was awarded in 1917; the first was awarded in 1918.)[2] Finalists have been announced since 1980, usually a total of three.[2] Contents 1 Winners 1.1 1910s to 1970s 1.2 1980s to 2020s 2 Repeat winners 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links Winners[edit] In 31 years under the "Novel" name, the prize was awarded 27 times; in its first 69 years to 2016 under the "Fiction" name, 62 times. There have been 11 years during which no title received the award. It has never been shared by two authors.[2] Four writers have won two prizes each in the Fiction category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. 1910s to 1970s[edit] Year Winner Work Genre(s) State Origin 1918 Ernest Poole (1880–1950) His Family Macmillan (1917) Novel Illinois 1919 Booth Tarkington (1869–1949) The Magnificent Ambersons Doubleday, Page & Co. (1918) Novel Indiana 1920 Not awarded[a] 1921 Edith Wharton (1862–1937) The Age of Innocence D. Appleton & Company (1920) Novel New York 1922 Booth Tarkington (1869–1949) Alice Adams Doubleday, Page & Co. (1921) Novel Indiana 1923 Willa Cather (1873–1947) One of Ours Alfred A. Knopf (1922) Novel Virginia 1924 Margaret Wilson (1882–1973) The Able McLaughlins Harper & Brothers (1923) Debut novel Iowa 1925 Edna Ferber (1885–1968) So Big Grosset & Dunlap (1924) Novel Michigan 1926 Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) Arrowsmith[b] Harcourt Brace & Co. (1925) Novel Minnesota 1927 Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) Early Autumn Amereon Ltd (1926) Novel Ohio 1928 Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) The Bridge of San Luis Rey Albert & Charles Boni (1927) Novel Wisconsin 1929 Julia Peterkin (1880–1961) Scarlet Sister Mary Bobbs-Merrill Company (1928) Novel South Carolina 1930 Oliver La Farge (1901–1963) Laughing Boy Houghton Mifflin (1929) Novel New York 1931 Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967) Years of Grace Houghton Mifflin (1930) Novel Illinois 1932 Pearl Buck (1892–1973) The Good Earth John Day Company (1931) Historical fiction West Virginia 1933 Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1881–1965) The Store Doubleday, Doran (1932) Novel Tennessee 1934 Caroline Pafford Miller (1903–1992) Lamb in His Bosom Harper & Brothers (1933) Debut novel Georgia 1935 Josephine Johnson (1910–1990) Now in November Simon & Schuster (1934) Debut novel Missouri 1936 Harold Lenoir Davis (1894–1960) Honey in the Horn Harper & Brothers (1935) Debut novel Oregon 1937 Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) Gone with the Wind Macmillan Publishers (1936) Novel Georgia 1938 John Philips Marquand (1893–1960) The Late George Apley Little, Brown and Company (1937) Epistolary novel Delaware 1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953) The Yearling Charles Scribner's Sons (1938) Young adult novel Washington, D.C. 1940 John Steinbeck (1902–1968) The Grapes of Wrath Viking Press (1939) Novel California 1941 Not awarded[c] 1942 Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945) In This Our Life Jonathan Cape (1941) Novel Virginia 1943 Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) Dragon's Teeth Viking Press (1942) Historical fiction Maryland 1944 Martin Flavin (1883–1967) Journey in the Dark Harper & Brothers (1943) Novel California 1945 John Hersey (1914–1993) A Bell for Adano Alfred A. Knopf (1944) War novel New York (born in Tianjin, China) 1946 Not awarded[d] 1947 Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) All the King's Men Harcourt, Brace & Company (1946) Political fiction Kentucky 1948 James Albert Michener (1907–1997) Tales of the South Pacific Macmillan Publishers (1947) Interrelated short stories, Book debut Pennsylvania 1949 James Gould Cozzens (1903–1978) Guard of Honor Harcourt, Brace & Company (1948) War novel Illinois 1950 Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. (1901–1991) The Way West William Sloane Associates (1949) Western fiction Indiana 1951 Conrad Richter (1890–1968) The Town Alfred A. Knopf (1950) Novel Pennsylvania 1952 Herman Wouk (1915–2019) The Caine Mutiny Doubleday (1951) Historical fiction New York 1953 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) The Old Man and the Sea Charles Scribner's Sons (1952) Short novel Illinois 1954 Not awarded[e] 1955 William Faulkner (1897–1962) A Fable Random House (1954) Novel Mississippi 1956 MacKinlay Kantor (1904–1977) Andersonville Penguin Books (1955) Historical fiction Iowa 1957 Not awarded[f] 1958 James Agee (1909–1955) A Death in the Family (posthumous win) McDowell, Obolensky (1957) Autobiographical novel Tennessee 1959 Robert Lewis Taylor (1912–1998) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Doubleday (1958) Historical fiction Illinois 1960 Allen Drury (1918–1998) Advise and Consent Doubleday (1958) Political fiction, Debut novel Texas 1961 Nelle Harper Lee (1926–2016) To Kill a Mockingbird J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1960) Southern Gothic, Bildungsroman, Debut novel Alabama 1962 Edwin O'Connor (1918–1968) The Edge of Sadness Little, Brown and Company (1961) Novel Rhode Island 1963 William Faulkner (1897–1962) The Reivers (posthumous win) Random House (1962) Novel Mississippi 1964 Not awarded[g] 1965 Shirley Ann Grau (1929–2020) The Keepers of the House Alfred A. Knopf (1964) Novel Louisiana 1966 Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Harcourt Brace (1965) Short story collection Texas 1967 Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) The Fixer Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1966) Novel New York 1968 William Styron (1925–2006) The Confessions of Nat Turner Random House (1967) Novel Virginia 1969 Navarre Scott Momaday (b. 1934) House Made of Dawn Harper & Row (1968) Novel Oklahoma 1970 Jean Stafford (1915–1979) The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1969) Short story collection California 1971 Not awarded[h] 1972 Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) Angle of Repose Doubleday (1971) Novel Iowa 1973 Eudora Welty (1909–2001) The Optimist's Daughter Random House (1972) Short novel Mississippi 1974 Not awarded[i] 1975 Michael Shaara (1928–1988) The Killer Angels David McKay Publications (1974) Historical fiction New Jersey 1976 Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Humboldt's Gift Viking Press (1975) Novel Illinois (born in Quebec, Canada) 1977 Not awarded[j] 1978 James Alan McPherson (1943–2016) Elbow Room Little, Brown (1977) Short story collection Georgia 1979 John Cheever (1912–1982) The Stories of John Cheever Alfred A. Knopf (1978) Short story collection Massachusetts 1980s to 2020s[edit] Entries from this point on includes the finalists listed for each year. Year Winner Work Genre(s) State Origin Finalists 1980 Norman Mailer (1923–2007) The Executioner's Song Little, Brown (1979) True crime novel New Jersey William Wharton, Birdy Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer 1981 John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) A Confederacy of Dunces (posthumous win) Louisiana State University Press (1980) Picaresque novel Louisiana Frederick Buechner, Godric William Keepers Maxwell Jr., So Long, See You Tomorrow 1982 John Updike (1932–2009) Rabbit Is Rich Alfred A. Knopf (1981) Novel Pennsylvania Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping 1983 Alice Walker (b. 1944) The Color Purple Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1982) Epistolary novel Georgia Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Chaim Grade, Rabbis and Wives 1984 William Kennedy (b. 1928) Ironweed Viking Press (1983) Novel New York Raymond Carver, Cathedral Thomas Berger, The Feud 1985 Alison Lurie (1926–2020) Foreign Affairs Random House (1984) Novel Illinois Diana O'Hehir, I Wish This War Were Over Douglas Unger, Leaving the Land 1986 Larry McMurtry (b. 1936) Lonesome Dove Simon & Schuster (1985) Western novel Texas Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist Russell Banks, Continental Drift 1987 Peter Taylor (1917–1994) A Summons to Memphis Alfred A. Knopf (1986) Novel Tennessee Donald Barthelme, Paradise Norman Rush, Whites 1988 Toni Morrison (1931–2019) Beloved Alfred A. Knopf (1987) Novel Ohio Diane Johnson, Persian Nights Alice McDermott, That Night 1989 Anne Tyler (b. 1941) Breathing Lessons Alfred A. Knopf (1988) Novel Minnesota Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From 1990 Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1989) Novel New York Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, Billy Bathgate 1991 John Updike (1932–2009) Rabbit At Rest Alfred A. Knopf (1990) Novel Pennsylvania Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried 1992 Jane Smiley (b. 1949) A Thousand Acres Alfred A. Knopf (1991) Domestic Realism California David Gates, Jernigan Robert Maynard Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals Don DeLillo, Mao II 1993 Robert Olen Butler (b. 1945) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Henry Holt (1992) Short story collection Illinois Alice McDermott, At Weddings and Wakes Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water 1994 Annie Proulx (b. 1935) The Shipping News Charles Scribner's Sons (1993) Novel Connecticut Reynolds Price, The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price Philip Roth Operation Shylock: A Confession 1995 Carol Shields (1935–2005) The Stone Diaries Random House (1993) Novel Illinois Grace Paley, The Collected Stories of Grace Paley Joyce Carol Oates, What I Lived For 1996 Richard Ford (b. 1944) Independence Day Alfred A. Knopf (1995) Novel Mississippi Oscar Hijuelos, Mr. Ives' Christmas Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater 1997 Steven Millhauser (b. 1943) Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Crown Publishers (1996) Novel New York Joanna Scott, The Manikin Ursula Le Guin, Unlocking the Air and Other Stories 1998 Philip Roth (1933–2018) American Pastoral Houghton Mifflin (1997) Novel New Jersey Robert Stone, Bear and His Daughter: Stories Don DeLillo, Underworld 1999 Michael Cunningham (b. 1952) The Hours Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998) Historical fiction Ohio Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible 2000 Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) Interpreter of Maladies Houghton Mifflin (1999) Short story collection Rhode Island (born in London, United Kingdom) (lives in Rome, Italy) Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories Ha Jin, Waiting 2001 Michael Chabon (b. 1963) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Random House (2000) Historical fiction Washington, D.C. Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde Joy Williams, The Quick and the Dead 2002 Richard Russo (b. 1949) Empire Falls Alfred A. Knopf (2001) Novel New York Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days 2003 Jeffrey Eugenides (b. 1960) Middlesex Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002) Family saga Michigan Andrea Barrett, Servants of the Map: Stories Adam Haslett, You Are Not a Stranger Here 2004 Edwrad Paul Jones (b. 1950) The Known World Amistad Press (2003) Historical fiction Washington, D.C. Susan Choi, American Woman Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen 2005 Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943) Gilead Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2004) Novel Idaho Ward Just, An Unfinished Season Ha Jin, War Trash 2006 Geraldine Brooks (b. 1955) March Viking Press (2005) Historical fiction New York (born in Sydney, Australia) Lee Martin, The Bright Forever Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, The March 2007 Cormac McCarthy (b. 1933) The Road Alfred A. Knopf (2006) Post-apocalyptic fiction Rhode Island Alice McDermott, After This Richard Powers, The Echo Maker 2008 Junot Díaz (b. 1968) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Riverhead Books (2007) Novel New Jersey (born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) Lore Segal, Shakespeare's Kitchen Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke 2009 Elizabeth Strout (b. 1956) Olive Kitteridge[k] Random House (2008) Interrelated short stories Maine Christine Schutt, All Souls Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves 2010 Paul Harding (b. 1967) Tinkers[l] Bellevue Literary Press (2009) Debut novel Massachusetts Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Lydia Millet, Love in Infant Monkeys 2011 Jennifer Egan (b. 1962) A Visit from the Goon Squad[m] Alfred A. Knopf (2010) Interrelated short stories Illinois Jonathan Dee, The Privileges Chang-Rae Lee, The Surrendered 2012 Not awarded[10] Denis Johnson, Train Dreams Karen Russell, Swamplandia! David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (posthumous nominee) 2013 Adam Johnson (b. 1967) The Orphan Master's Son[n] Random House (2012) Novel South Dakota Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child 2014 Donna Tartt (b. 1963) The Goldfinch[o] Little, Brown and Company (2013) Novel Mississippi Philipp Meyer, The Son Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul 2015 Anthony Doerr (b. 1973) All the Light We Cannot See[p] Charles Scribner's Sons (2014) War novel Ohio Richard Ford, Let Me Be Frank with You Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account Joyce Carol Oates, Lovely, Dark, Deep 2016 Viet Thanh Nguyen (b. 1971) The Sympathizer[q] Grove Press (2015) Debut novel California (born in Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam) Kelly Link, Get in Trouble: Stories Margaret Verble, Maud's Line 2017 Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) The Underground Railroad[r] Doubleday (2016) Alternate historical novel New York Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone Catherine Elaine Morgan, The Sport of Kings 2018 Andrew Sean Greer (b. 1970) Less[s] Little, Brown and Company (2017) Satirical novel Washington, D.C. Hernan Diaz, In the Distance Elif Batuman, The Idiot 2019 Richard Powers (b. 1957) The Overstory[t] W. W. Norton & Company (2018) Novel Illinois Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers Tommy Orange, There There (novel) 2020 Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) The Nickel Boys[u] Doubleday (2019) Novel New York Ben Lerner, The Topeka School Ann Patchett, The Dutch House Repeat winners[edit] Four writers to date have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction multiple times, one nominally in the novel category and two in the general fiction category. Ernest Hemingway was selected by the 1941 and 1953 juries, but the former was overturned and no 1941 award was given.[c] Booth Tarkington, 1919, 1922 William Faulkner, 1955, 1963 (awarded posthumously) John Updike, 1982, 1991 Colson Whitehead, 2017, 2020 Notes[edit] ^ First-time fiction juror Stuart P. Sherman initially recommended Joseph Hergesheimer's Java Head for the award; he rescinded his recommendation when the other jurors informed him that the word "whole" in a key phrase of the original description of the award, "the whole atmosphere of American life", had been subsequently been changed to "wholesome".[3] ^ Lewis declined the prize.[4] ^ a b The fiction jury had recommended the 1941 award be shared by The Trees by Conrad Richter and The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. While the Pulitzer Board initially intended to give the award to the jury's third choice, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year.[3][5] ^ The fiction jury had recommended the 1941 award be shared by The Trees by Conrad Richter and The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. While the Pulitzer Board initially intended to give the award to the jury's third choice, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year.[3][5] ^ The two-man fiction jury could not agree on a single book to recommend to the Advisory Board, so no award was given; among the books recommended by juror Eric P. Kelly were Ramey by Jack D. Ferris, The Sands of Karakorum by James Ullman, The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, and The Four Lives of Mundy Tolliver by Ben Lucien Burman, while juror Harris F. Fletcher recommended The Street of the Three Friends by Myron Brinig and The Deep Sleep by Wright Morris[3] ^ The fiction jury had recommended the 1957 award to Elizabeth Spencer's The Voice at the Back Door, but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award.[5] ^ "Among the books the judges most seriously considered were the following: (1) Norman Fruchter's Coat Upon a Stick…, (2) May Sarton's novella Joanna and Ulysses…, (3) Sumner Locke Elliott's Careful, He Might Hear You…, [and] (4) John Killens' And Then We Heard the Thunder… If a prize were to be awarded for a 1963 novel we felt these to be the most serious candidates." However, the fiction jury ultimately recommended that no award be given because "no one of them imposes itself upon us as demanding recognition as 'distinguished fiction'…."[3] ^ The three novels the Pulitzer committee put forth for consideration to the Pulitzer board were: Losing Battles by Eudora Welty; Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow; and The Wheel of Love by Joyce Carol Oates. The board rejected all three and opted for no award.[6] ^ The fiction jury had unanimously recommended the 1974 award to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award.[5] ^ The fiction jury had recommended the 1977 award to Norman MacLean's A River Runs Through It, but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award. That same year, however, Alex Haley's iconic family saga Roots was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize.[5] ^ "A collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine that packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating."[7] ^ "A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality."[8] ^ "An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed."[9] ^ "An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart."[11] ^ "A beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters that follows a grieving boy's entanglement with a small famous painting that has eluded destruction, a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart."[12] ^ "An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology."[13] ^ "A layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a "man of two minds" -- and two countries, Vietnam and the United States."[14] ^ "For a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America."[15] ^ "A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love."[16] ^ "An ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them."[17] ^ "A spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption."[18] References[edit] ^ "1917 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2018-04-19. ^ a b c "Pulitzer Prize for the Novel". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2008-08-19. ^ a b c d e Hohenberg, John (1974). The Pulitzer Prizes: A History of the Awards in Books, Drama, Music, and Journalism, Based on the Private Files Over Six Decades. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 55, 143–44, 198, 204, 258. ISBN 0231038879. ^ McDowell, Edwin (1984-05-11). "Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-02-15. ^ a b c d e McDowell, Edwin. "PUBLISHING: PULITZER CONTROVERSIES". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-04-19. [I]n 1941, after both the jury and the board voted to give the fiction prize to Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia and ex-officio chairman of the board, forced the board to change its vote because he found the book offensive. ^ Fischer, Heinz Dietrich; Fischer, Erika J. (1997). Novel/Fiction Awards 1917–1994: From Pearl S. Buck and Margaret Mitchell to Ernest Hemingway and John Updike. The Pulitzer Prize Archive. 10 (in part D, "Belles Lettres"). München: K.G. Saur. pp. LX–LXI. ISBN 9783110972115. OCLC 811400780. ^ "2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 24 December 2017. ^ "2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. ^ "2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 14 January 2021. External links[edit] Novels portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners. Official website for Pulitzer Prize: for the Novel and for Fiction The Pulitzer Prize Thumbnails Project Michael's Cunningham's "Letter from the Pulitzer Fiction Jury: What Really Happened This Year," The New Yorker — Part One (July 9, 2012) and Part Two (July 10, 2012) v t e Pulitzer Prize 20th century 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 21st century 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 v t e Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1918–1925 His Family by Ernest Poole (1918) The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921) Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (1922) One of Ours by Willa Cather (1923) The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (1924) So Big by Edna Ferber (1925) 1926–1950 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined) (1926) Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927) The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928) Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929) Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1930) Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932) The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933) Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Pafford Miller (1934) Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935) Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (1936) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937) The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (1938) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1940) In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (1942) Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (1943) Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (1944) A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1945) All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1947) Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1948) Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (1949) The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1950) 1951–1975 The Town by Conrad Richter (1951) The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1952) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953) A Fable by William Faulkner (1955) Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (1956) A Death in the Family by James Agee (1958) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (1959) Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961) The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (1962) The Reivers by William Faulkner (1963) The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau (1965) The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966) The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967) The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1968) House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1969) The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford (1970) Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1972) The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973) No award given (1974) The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975) 1976–2000 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1976) No award given (1977) Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (1978) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1979) The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1980) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) Ironweed by William Kennedy (1984) Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (1985) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986) A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1987) Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988) Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (1993) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1994) The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995) Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996) Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (1997) American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1998) The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000) 2001–present The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001) Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2002) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003) The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005) March by Geraldine Brooks (2006) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2008) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009) Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2011) No award given (2012) The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (2013) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2014) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2015) The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2017) Less by Andrew Sean Greer (2018) The Overstory by Richard Powers (2019) The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2020) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction&oldid=1003222478" Categories: English-language literary awards Pulitzer Prizes by category Awards established in 1918 American fiction awards Hidden categories: CS1: long volume value Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Commons category link is on Wikidata Commons category link is locally defined Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Afrikaans العربية বাংলা Беларуская Bosanski Català Deutsch Ελληνικά Euskara فارسی Français Frysk 한국어 Hrvatski Italiano ქართული Kiswahili Latina Magyar Nederlands 日本語 Norsk bokmål ਪੰਜਾਬੀ پنجابی Polski Português Русский Shqip Simple English Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 28 January 2021, at 00:09 (UTC). 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