Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

This prize is given in the United States. There are several other Pulitzer Prizes. The **Pulitzer Prize for Fiction** is for writing by an American author. Usually this writing is about American life. It started as the **Pulitzer Prize for the Novel**, which was awarded between 1918 and 1947.

## 1910s

- **1918:** _His Family_  by Ernest Poole
- **1919:** _The Magnificent Ambersons_ by Booth Tarkington

## 1920s

- **1920:** no award given
- **1921:** _The Age of Innocence_ by Edith Wharton
- **1922:** _Alice Adams_ by Booth Tarkington
- **1923:** _One of Ours_ by Willa Cather
- **1924:** _The Able McLaughlins_ by Margaret Wilson
- **1925:** _So Big_ by Edna Ferber
- **1926:** _Arrowsmith_ by Sinclair Lewis (declined prize)
- **1927:** _Early Autumn_ by Louis Bromfield
- **1928:** _The Bridge of San Luis Rey_ by Thornton Wilder
- **1929:** _Scarlet Sister Mary_ by Julia Peterkin

## 1930s

- **1930:** _Laughing Boy_ by Oliver La Farge
- **1931:** _Years of Grace_ by Margaret Ayer Barnes
- **1932:** _The Good Earth_ by Pearl S. Buck
- **1933:** _The Store_ by Thomas Sigismund Stribling
- **1934:** _Lamb in His Bosom_ by Caroline Miller
- **1935:** _Now in November_ by Josephine Winslow Johnson
- **1936:** _Honey in the Horn_ by Harold L. Davis
- **1937:** _Gone with the Wind_ by Margaret Mitchell
- **1938:** _The Late George Apley_ by John Phillips Marquand
- **1939:** _The Yearling_ by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

## 1940s

- **1940:** _The Grapes of Wrath_ by John Steinbeck
- **1941:** no award given
- **1942:** _In This Our Life_ by Ellen Glasgow
- **1943:** _Dragon's Teeth_ by Upton Sinclair
- **1944:** _Journey in the Dark_ by Martin Flavin
- **1945:** _A Bell for Adano_ by John Hersey
- **1946:** no award given
- **1947:** _All the King's Men_ by Robert Penn Warren
- **1948:** _Tales of the South Pacific_ by James A. Michener
- **1949:** _Guard of Honor_ by James Gould Cozzens

## 1950s

- **1950:** _The Way West_ by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
- **1951:** _The Town_ by Conrad Richter
- **1952:** _The Caine Mutiny_ by Herman Wouk
- **1953:** _The Old Man and the Sea_ by Ernest Hemingway
- **1954:** No award given
- **1955:** _A Fable_ by William Faulkner
- **1956:** _Andersonville_ by MacKinlay Kantor
- **1957:** No award given
- **1958:** _A Death in the Family_ by James Agee
- **1959:** _The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters_ by Robert Lewis Taylor

## 1960s

- **1960:** _Advise and Consent_ by Allen Drury
- **1961:** _To Kill a Mockingbird_ by Harper Lee
- **1962:** _The Edge of Sadness_ by Edwin O'Connor
- **1963:** _The Reivers_ by William Faulkner
- **1964:** No award given
- **1965:** _The Keepers of the House_ by Shirley Ann Grau
- **1966:** _The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter_ by Katherine Anne Porter
- **1967:** _The Fixer_ by Bernard Malamud
- **1968:** _The Confessions of Nat Turner_ by William Styron
- **1969:** _House Made of Dawn_ by N. Scott Momaday

## 1970s

- **1970:** _The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford_ by Jean Stafford
- **1971:** No award given
- **1972:** _Angle of Repose_ by Wallace Stegner
- **1973:** _The Optimist's Daughter_ by Eudora Welty
- **1974:** No award given
- **1975:** _The Killer Angels_ by Michael Shaara
- **1976:** _Humboldt's Gift_ by Saul Bellow
- **1977:** No award given
- **1978:** _Elbow Room_ by James Alan McPherson
- **1979:** _The Stories of John Cheever_ by John Cheever

## 1980s

Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
- **1980:** _The Executioner's Song_ by Norman Mailer
    - _Birdy_ by William Wharton
    - _The Ghost Writer_ by Philip Roth
- **1981:** _A Confederacy of Dunces_ by John Kennedy Toole (posthumous win)
    - _Godric_ by Frederick Buechner
    - _So Long, See You Tomorrow_ by William Maxwell
- **1982:** _Rabbit Is Rich_ by John Updike
    - _A Flag for Sunrise_ by Robert Stone
    - _Housekeeping_ by Marilynne Robinson
- **1983:** _The Color Purple_ by Alice Walker
    - _Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant_ by Anne Tyler
    - _Rabbis and Wives_ by Chaim Grade
- **1984:** _Ironweed_ by William Kennedy
    - _Cathedral_ by Raymond Carver
    - _The Feud_ by Thomas Berger
- **1985:** _Foreign Affairs_ by Alison Lurie
    - _I Wish This War Were Over_ by Diana O'Hehir
    - _Leaving the Land_ by Douglas Unger
- **1986:** _Lonesome Dove_ by Larry McMurtry
    - _The Accidental Tourist_ by Anne Tyler
    - _Continental Drift_ by Russell Banks
- **1987:** _A Summons to Memphis_ by Peter Taylor
    - _Paradise_ by Donald Barthelme
    - _Whites_ by Norman Rush
- **1988:** _Beloved_ by Toni Morrison
    - _Persian Nights_ by Diane Johnson
    - _That Night_ by Alice McDermott
- **1989:** _Breathing Lessons_ by Anne Tyler
    - _Where I'm Calling From_ by Raymond Carver

## 1990s

- **1990:** _The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love_ by Oscar Hijuelos
    - _Billy Bathgate_ by E. L. Doctorow
- **1991:** _Rabbit at Rest_ by John Updike
    - _Mean Spirit_ by Linda Hogan
    - _The Things They Carried_ by Tim O'Brien
- **1992:** _A Thousand Acres_ by Jane Smiley
    - _Jernigan_ by David Gates
    - _Lila: An Inquiry into Morals_ by Robert M. Pirsig
    - _Mao II_ by Don DeLillo
- **1993:** _A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain_ by Robert Olen Butler
    - _At Weddings and Wakes_ by Alice McDermott
    - _Black Water_ by Joyce Carol Oates
- **1994:** _The Shipping News_ by E. Annie Proulx
    - _The Collected Stories_ by Reynolds Price
    - _Operation Shylock: A Confession_ by Philip Roth
- **1995:** _The Stone Diaries_ by Carol Shields
    - _The Collected Stories_ by Grace Paley
    - _What I Lived For_ by Joyce Carol Oates
- **1996:** _Independence Day_ by Richard Ford
    - _Mr. Ives' Christmas_ by Oscar Hijuelos
    - _Sabbath's Theater_ by Philip Roth
- **1997:** _Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer_ by Steven Millhauser
    - _The Manikin_ by Joanna Scott
    - _Unlocking the Air and Other Stories_ by Ursula K. Le Guin
- **1998:** _American Pastoral_ by Philip Roth
    - _Bear and His Daughter: Stories_ by Robert Stone
    - _Underworld_ by Don DeLillo
- **1999:** _The Hours_ by Michael Cunningham
    - _Cloudsplitter_ by Russell Banks
    - _The Poisonwood Bible_ by Barbara Kingsolver

## 2000s

- **2000:** _Interpreter of Maladies_ by Jhumpa Lahiri
    - _Close Range: Wyoming Stories_ by Annie Proulx
    - _Waiting_ by Ha Jin
- **2001:** _The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay_ by Michael Chabon
    - _Blonde_ by Joyce Carol Oates
    - _The Quick and the Dead_ by Joy Williams
- **2002:** _Empire Falls_ by Richard Russo
    - _The Corrections_ by Jonathan Franzen
    - _John Henry Days_ by Colson Whitehead
- **2003:** _Middlesex_ by Jeffrey Eugenides
    - _Servants of the Map: Stories_ by Andrea Barrett
    - _You Are Not a Stranger Here_ by Adam Haslett
- **2004:** _The Known World_  by Edward P. Jones
    - _American Woman_ by Susan Choi
    - _Evidence of Things Unseen_ by Marianne Wiggins
- **2005:** _Gilead_ by Marilynne Robinson
    - _An Unfinished Season_ by Ward Just
    - _War Trash_ by Ha Jin
- **2006:** _March_ by Geraldine Brooks
    - _The Bright Forever_ by Lee Martin
    - _The March_ by E. L. Doctorow
- **2007:** _The Road_ by Cormac McCarthy
    - _After This_ by Alice McDermott
    - _The Echo Maker_ by Richard Powers
- **2008:** _The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao_ by Junot Diaz
    - _Shakespeare's Kitchen_ by Lore Segal
    - _Tree of Smoke_ by Denis Johnson
- **2009:** _Olive Kitteridge_ by Elizabeth Strout
    - _All Souls_ by Christine Schutt
    - _The Plague of Doves_ by Louise Erdrich

## 2010s

- **2010:** _Tinkers_ by Paul Harding
    - _In Other Rooms, Other Wonders_ by Daniyal Mueenuddin
    - _Love in Infant Monkeys_ by Lydia Millet

## Other websites

- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction