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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Ernest Poole

<< 1918 >>

Established by Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York Globe, through an endowment to Columbia University. The Fiction Award is given annually for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably dealing with American life.

Prize Winners

Winners year-by-year, or publication dates for lists. Click highlighted authors for reference info.

1918:

Ernest Poole, His Family

1919:

Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

1921:

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

1922:

Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams

1923:

Willa Cather, One of Ours

1924:

Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins

1925:

Edna Ferber, So Big

1926:

Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

1927:

Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn

1928:

Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1929:

Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary

1930:

Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy

1931:

Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace

1932:

Pearl Buck, The Good Earth

1933:

T.S. Stribling, The Store

1934:

Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom

1935:

Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

1936:

H.L. Davis, Honey in the Horn

1937:

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

1938:

John P. Marquand, The Late George Apley

1939:

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

1940:

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

1942:

Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

1943:

Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth

1944:

Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark

1945:

John Hersey, A Bell for Adano

1947:

Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

1948:

James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific

1949:

James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor

1950:

A.B. Guthrie, The Way West

1951:

Conrad Richter, The Town

1952:

Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

1953:

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

1955:

William Faulkner, A Fable

1956:

MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville

1958:

James Agee, A Death in the Family

1959:

Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jamie McPheeters

1960:

Allen Drury, Advise and Consent

1961:

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

1962:

Edwin O'Connor, The Edge of Sadness

1963:

William Faulkner, The Reivers

1965:

Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House

1966:

Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

1967:

Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

1968:

William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

1969:

N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn

1970:

Jean Stafford, Collected Stories

1972:

Wallace Stegner, The Angle of Repose

1973:

Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter

1975:

Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

1976:

Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift

1978:

James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room

1979:

John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever

1980:

Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song

1981:

John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

1982:

John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

1983:

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

1984:

William Kennedy, Ironweed

1985:

Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs

1986:

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

1987:

Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis

1988:

Toni Morrison, Beloved

1989:

Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons

1990:

Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

1991:

John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

1992:

Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

1993:

Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

1994:

E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

1995:

Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

1996:

Richard Ford, Independence Day

1997:

Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler

1998:

Philip Roth, American Pastoral

1999:

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

2000:

Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

2001:

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2002:

Richard Russo, Empire Falls

2003:

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

2004:

Edward P. Jones, The Known World

2005:

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

2006:

Geraldine Brooks, March

2007:

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

2008:

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2009:

Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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Cover Image: (Story): Remittance Man (Excerpt from *Tales of the South Pacific* in) The Saturday Evening Post. December 14, 1946 by MICHENER, James A.

MICHENER, James A.

(Story): Remittance Man (Excerpt from...

Cover Image: A Death in the Family by AGEE, James

A Death in the Family

Cover Image: A Death in the Family by AGEE, James

A Death in the Family

Cover Image: A Death in the Family by AGEE, James

A Death in the Family

Cover Image: A Death in the Family by AGEE, James

A Death in the Family

Cover Image: A Death in the Family by AGEE, James

A Death in the Family

Cover Image: A Death in the Family by AGEE, James

A Death in the Family

Cover Image: A Fable by FAULKNER, William

FAULKNER, William

Cover Image: A Fable by FAULKNER, William

FAULKNER, William

Cover Image: A Fable by FAULKNER, William

FAULKNER, William

Cover Image: A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis... on the present State of Our National Affairs: With Remarks upon Mr. Pickering's Letter to the Governor of the Commonwealth by ADAMS, John Quincy

ADAMS, John Quincy

A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray...

Cover Image: A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis...on the present State of Our National Affairs: With Remarks upon Mr. Pickering's Letter to the Governor of the Commonwealth by ADAMS, John Quincy

ADAMS, John Quincy

A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray...

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