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 The fiction jury had recommended the 1941 award go to Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Although the Pulitzer Board agreed at first, the president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to change its decision because he thought the novel was offensive, and no award was given that year. McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies." New York Times 11 May 1984: C26. 
 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 givenThe 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. Source: McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies". The New York Times, 11 May 1984: C26.
 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 givenThe 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. Source: Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich. The Pulizer Prize Archive, Volume 10,  "Novel/Fiction Awards 1917-1994". Munich: K.G. Saur, 1994. LX-LXI.
 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 
 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
 1974: No award given 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. Source: McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies". The New York Times, 11 May 1984: C26. 
 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
 1977: No award given 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. Source: McDowell, Edwin. "Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies". The New York Times, 11 May 1984: C26. 
 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

References

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