Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Year

The Pulitzer prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes, originally endowed with a gift from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded since 1917. The awards are made by Columbia University on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board. Official Pulitzer Prize Web site.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

• 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 and Clay by Michael Chabon
• 2000  Interpreter of Maladies 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 Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty
• 1972  Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• 1971  No Award
• 1970  Collected Stores 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  No Award
• 1963  The Reivers 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