Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize



2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2013: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson2012 - no prize given
2011 - A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
2010 - Tinkers - Paul Harding

2009 - Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout 2009
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
2007 - The Road - Cormac McCarthy 2007
2006 - March - Geraldine Brooks 2015
2005 - Gilead - Marilynne Robinson 2009
2004 - The Known World - Edward P. Jones 2012

2003 - Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides 2006
2002 - Empire Falls - Richard Russo
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri 2010

1999 - The Hours - Michael Cunningham 2008
1998 - American Pastoral - Philip Roth
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Millhauser
1996 - Independence Day - Richard Ford
1995 - The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields 2008
1994 - The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler
1992 - A Thousand Acres - Jan Smiley
1991 - Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos

1989 - Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
1988 - Beloved - Toni Morrison1987 - A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
1986 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
1985 - Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie 2010
1984 - Ironweed - William Kennedy
1983 - The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1982 - Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 2007
1980 - The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer

1979 - The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
1978 - Elbow Room - James Alan McPherson
1977 - None given
1976 - Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
1975 - The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
1974 - None given
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
1972 - Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
1971 - None given
1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

1969 - House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966 - Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers Of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1964 - None given
1963 - The Reivers - William Faulkner
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird - 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 - James Agee 2009
1957 - None
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1955 - A Fable - William Faulkner
1954 - None
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
1950 - The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1947 - All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
1946 - None
1945 - Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1943 - Dragon's Teeth I by Upton Sinclair
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1941 - None
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

1939 - The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938 - The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
1937 - Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold Lenoir Davis
1935 - Now in November by Josephine W. Johnson
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1933 - The Store by Thomas Stribling
1932 - The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930 - Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge

1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
1927 - Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1925 - So Big - Edna Ferber *
1924 - The Able McLauglins - Margaret Wilson
1923 - One of Ours - Willa Cather
1922 - Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
1921 - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
1920 - None

1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
1918 - His Family Ernest Poole