Pulitzer Prize (1918-2006)

Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist, began the Pulitzer Prize in 1918 to award those who shared interest in his profession. The following is a list of the books that have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

March by Geraldine Brooks (2006)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005)

The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004)

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)

The Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2002)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (2001)

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)

The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999)

American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1998)

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (1997)

Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996)

Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995)

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1994)

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (1993)

Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992)

Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991)

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990)

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989)

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)

A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1987)

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986)

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (1985)

Ironweed by William Kennedy (1984)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983)

Rabbit is Rich by John Updike (1982)

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981)

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1980)

The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1979)

Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (1978)

(No award for 1977)

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1976)

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975)

(No award for 1974)

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973)

The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1972)

(No award for 1971)

Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (1970)

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1969)

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967)

Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966)

The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau (1965)

(No award for 1964)

The Reivers by William Faulkner (1963)

The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961)

The Travels of Jamie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (1959)

A Death in the Family by James Agee (1958)

(No award for 1957)

Andersonville by Mackinlay Kantor (1956)

A Fable by William Faulkner (1955)

(No award for 1954)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953)

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1952)

The Town by Conrad Richter (1951)

The Way West by A.B. Guthrie (1950)

Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (1949)

Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1948)

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1947)

(No award for 1946)

A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1945)

Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (1944)

Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (1943)

In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (1942)

(No award for 1941)

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1940)

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939)

The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (1938)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937)

Honey in the Horn by Harold Davis (1936)

Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935)

Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (1934)

The Store by T.S. Stribling (1933)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932)

Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931)

Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1930)

Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928)

Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927)

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1926)

The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (1924)

One of Ours by Willa Cather (1923)

Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (1922)

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921)

(No award for 1920)

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919)

His Family by Ernest Poole (1918)