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WINNERS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

IN FICTION

The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year. During some years no award was given.

Click on the links below to find these books in our catalog.

• 2007 - The road, by Cormac McCarthy
• 2006 - March, by Geraldine Brooks
• 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 & Clay, 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
• 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 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
• 1981 - A confederacy of dunces, by John Kennedy 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 M. 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 - No award
• 1963 - The Reivers, a reminiscence, by William Faulkner
• 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
• 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 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, 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 - The grapes of wrath, by John Steinbeck
• 1939 - The yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• 1938 - The late George Apley, by John P. Marquand
• 1937 - Gone with the wind, by Margaret Mitchell
• 1936 - Honey in the horn, by Harold L. Davis
• 1935 - Now in November, by Josephine W. 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 LaFarge
• 1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary, by Julia M. Peterkin
• 1928 - The bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder
• 1927 - Early autumn, by Louis Bromfield
• 1926 - Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis (refused prize)
• 1925 - So big, by Edna Ferber
• 1924 - The Able McLaughlins, by Margaret Wilson
• 1923 - One of ours, by Willa Cather
• 1922 - Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington
• 1921 - The age of innocence, by Edith Wharton
• 1920 - No award
• 1919 - The magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
• 1918 - His family, by Ernest Poole