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PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS > means in our collection
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Fiction
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
>2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
>2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon
2000 Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
>1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
>1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
>1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
>1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (see also 1982)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
>1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
>1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Hillsman Taylor
>1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
>1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
>1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike (see also 1991)
Pulitzer Prize Winners (continued)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O’Toole
1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1977 No Award
1976 Humboldt’s Gift by
Saul Bellow
>1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1974 No Award
1973 The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1971 No Award
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
>1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
>1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1965 The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1964 No Award
1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner
(See also
1955)
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
>1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee
1957 No Award
1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
(See also
1963)
Pulitzer Prize Winners (continued)
1954 No Award
>1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter
>1950 The Way West by Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr.
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
Before 1948 The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was referred to as The Pulitzer Prize for Novels
1947 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
1946 No Award
1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1943 Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1941 No Award
>1940 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling
>1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
>1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
Pulitzer Prize Winners (continued)
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (See also 1919)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1920 No Award
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (See also 1922)
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole
General Non-Fiction
2005 Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
2004 Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
2003 A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
2002 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
1999 Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
>1998 Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
1997 Ashes to Ashes : America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
Pulitzer Prize Winners (continued)
1996 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
>1995 The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
1994 Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
1991 The Ants by Bet Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
1990 And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge, photographer and Michael Williamson, reporter
>1989 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
>1988 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1987 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler
1986 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas |
1985 The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel 1984 The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
1983 Is There No Place on Earth for Me by Susan Sheeham
1982 The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
1981 Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
1980 Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
1979 On Human Nature by Edward Osborne Wilson
1978 The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
1977 Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William W. Warner
Pulitzer Prize Winners (continued)
1976 Why Survive Being Old in America by Robert N. Butler |
>1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
1974 The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
1973 Children of Crisis, Volumes II and III by Robert Coles AND Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
1971 The Rising Sun by John Toland
1970 Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
1969 The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer AND So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos
1968 Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth and final volume of The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
1967 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
1966 Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
1965 O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones
1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
>1963 The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
1962 The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White