Pulitzer Prize in Writing for Fiction

Pulitzer Prize in Writing for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.

YearAuthorBook 
2008Junot DiazThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 
2007Cormac McCarthyThe Road 
2006Geraldine BrooksMarch 
2005Marilynne RobinsonGilead 
2004Edward P. JonesThe Known World 
2003Jeffrey EugenidesMiddlesex 
2002Richard RussoEmpire Falls 
2001Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 
2000Jhumpa LahiriInterpreter of Maladies 
1999Michael CunninghamThe Hours 
1998Philip RothAmerican Pastoral 
1997Steven MillhauserMartin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer 
1996Richard FordIndependence Day 
1995Carol ShieldsThe Stone Diaries 
1994E. Annie ProulxThe Shipping News 
1993Robert Olen ButlerA Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 
1992Jane SmileyA Thousand Acres 
1991John UpdikeRabbit At Rest 
1990Oscar HijuelosThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 
1989Anne TylerBreathing Lessons 
1988Toni MorrisonBeloved 
1987Peter TaylorA Summons to Memphis 
1986Larry McMurtryLonesome Dove 
1985Alison LurieForeign Affairs 
1984William KennedyIronweed 
1983Alice WalkerThe Color Purple 
1982John UpdikeRabbit Is Rich 
1981John Kennedy TooleA Confederacy of Dunces 
1980Norman MailerThe Executioner's Song 
1979John CheeverThe Stories of John Cheever 
1978James Alan McPhersonElbow Room 
1977-- 
1976Saul BellowHumboldt's Gift 
1975Michael ShaaraThe Killer Angels 
1974-- 
1973Eudora WeltyThe Optimists Daughter 
1972Wallace StegnerAngle of Repose 
1971-- 
1970Jean StaffordCollected Stories 
1969N. Scott MomadayHouse Made of Dawn 
1968William StyronThe Confessions of Nat Turner 
1967Bernard MalamudThe Fixer 
1966Katherine Anne PorterCollected Stories 
1965Shirley Ann GrauThe Keepers Of The House 
1964-- 
1963William FaulknerThe Reivers 
1962Edwin O'ConnorThe Edge of Sadness 
1961Harper LeeTo Kill A Mockingbird 
1960Allen DruryAdvise and Consent 
1959Robert Lewis TaylorThe Travels of Jaimie McPheeters 
1958James AgeeA Death In The Family 
1957-- 
1956MacKinlay KantorAndersonville 
1955William FaulknerA Fable 
1954-- 
1953Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea 
1952Herman WoukThe Caine Mutiny 
1951Conrad RichterThe Town 
1950A. B. Guthrie, Jr.The Way West 
1949James Gould CozzensGuard of Honor 
1948James A. MichenerTales of the South Pacific 
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