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

## References
## Other websites
*Pulitzer Prize for Fiction