Pulitzer Prize Winners
All Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction List 1918-2024
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded each year to American authors of new books covering American life. The first Pulitzer prize was awarded in 1918. ADDucation’s Pulitzer prize winners for fiction list shows the author and title of the winning book each year. The Pulitzer awards were initiated by Jewish journalist Joseph Pulitzer rewarding winners with a gold medal and $10,000 in cash.
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| Year | Title of Pulitzer prize winners books | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The 2023 Pulitzer winner for fiction and other nominated finalists will be announced in 2023 | 2023 Pulitzer winner TBA |
| 2022 | Monkey Boy | Francisco Goldman |
| 2021 | The Night Watchman | Louise Erdrich |
| 2020 | The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
| 2019 | The Overstory | Richard Powers |
| 2018 | Less | Andrew Sean Greer |
| 2017 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| 2016 | The Sympathizer. | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| 2015 | All the light we cannot see | Anthony Doerr |
| 2014 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| 2013 | The Orphan Master’s Son | Adam Johnson |
| 2012 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 2011 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan |
| 2010 | Tinkers. | Paul Harding |
| 2009 | Olive Kitteridge. | Elizabeth Strout |
| 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz |
| 2007 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy |
| 2006 | March | Geraldine Brooks |
| 2005 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| 2004 | The Known World | Edward P. Jones |
| 2003 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 2002 | Empire Falls | Richard Russo |
| 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon |
| 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 1999 | The Hours | Michael Cunningham |
| 1998 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| 1997 | Martin Dressler | Steven Millhauser |
| 1996 | Independence Day | Richard Ford |
| 1995 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
| 1994 | The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx |
| 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | Robert Olen Butler |
| 1992 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| 1991 | Rabbit At Rest | John Updike |
| 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Oscar Hijuelos |
| 1989 | Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler |
| 1988 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | Peter Taylor |
| 1986 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry |
| 1985 | Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie |
| 1984 | Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| 1983 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike |
| 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| 1980 | The Executioner’s Song | Norman Mailer |
| 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever | John Cheever |
| 1978 | Elbow Room | James Alan McPherson |
| 1977 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1976 | Humboldt’s Gift | Saul Bellow |
| 1975 | The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
| 1974 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1973 | The Optimist’s Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| 1972 | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner |
| 1971 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1970 | Collected Stories | Jean Stafford |
| 1969 | House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday |
| 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron |
| 1967 | The Fixer. | Bernard Malamud |
| 1966 | Collected Stories. | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1965 | The Keepers Of The House. | Shirley Ann Grau |
| 1964 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1963 | The Reivers | William Faulkner |
| 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | Edwin O’Connor |
| 1961 | To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 1960 | Advise and Consent | Allen Drury |
| 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | Robert Lewis Taylor |
| 1958 | A Death In The Family | James Agee |
| 1957 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1956 | Andersonville | MacKinlay Kantor |
| 1955 | A Fable. | William Faulkner |
| 1954 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea. | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1952 | The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk |
| 1951 | The Town | Conrad Richter |
| 1950 | The Way West | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
| 1949 | Guard of Honor | James Gould Cozzens |
| 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | James A. Michener |
| 1947 | All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1946 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1945 | A Bell for Adano | John Hersey |
| 1944 | Journey in the Dark | Martin Flavin |
| 1943 | Dragon’s Teeth | Upton Sinclair |
| 1942 | In This Our Life | Ellen Glasgow |
| 1941 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 1939 | The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| 1938 | The Late George Apley | John Phillips Marquand |
| 1937 | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 1936 | Honey in the Horn | Harold L. Davis |
| 1935 | Now in November | Josephine Winslow Johnson |
| 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom | Caroline Miller |
| 1933 | The Store | T. S. Stribling |
| 1932 | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| 1931 | Years of Grace | Margaret Ayer Barnes |
| 1930 | Laughing Boy | Oliver Lafarge |
| 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary | Julia Peterkin |
| 1928 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| 1927 | Early Autumn | Louis Bromfield |
| 1926 | Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| 1925 | So Big | Edna Ferber |
| 1924 | The Able McLaughlins | Margaret Wilson |
| 1923 | One of Ours | Willa Cather |
| 1922 | Alice Adams | Booth Tarkington |
| 1921 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 1920 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
| 1919 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |
| 1918 | His Family | Ernest Poole |
| 1917 | No Pulitzer prize for fiction awarded | No Pulitzer Prize Winners |
See also: Nobel prize for literature winners… | Booker Prize winners…
Pulitzer emigrated to the US in 1864 and became wealthy in the newspaper industry, founding the yellow press in the process.
Pulitzer strongly supported investigative reporting and exposed a bribe by the USA to the Panama Canal Company. This led to an indictment for libeling US President Roosevelt which was later dismissed. Pulitzer bequeathed $2 million to fund a school of journalism at Columbia University and yearly prizes for literature along with journalism, music and drama.
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