Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

2019 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Overstory

Richard Powers

2018 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Less

Andrew Sean Greer

2017 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

2016 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

2015 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

2014 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

2013 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Orphan Master’s Son

Adam Johnson

2012 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given.

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

2010 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Tinkers

Paul Harding

2009 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

2008 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

2007 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2006 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

March

Geraldine Brooks

2005 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

2004 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

2003 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

2002 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

2001 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

2000 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

1999 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

1998 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

1997 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Tale of an American Dreamer

Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler

1996 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Independence Day

Richard Ford

1995 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

1994 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Shipping News

E. Annie Proulx

1993 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler

1992 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

1991 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike

1990 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Oscar Hijuelos

1989 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Breathing Lessons

Anne Tyler

1988 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Beloved

Toni Morrison

1987 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Summons to Memphis

Peter Taylor

1986 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

1985 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie

1984 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Ironweed

William Kennedy

1983 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

1982 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Rabbit is Rich

John Updike

1981 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

1980 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Executioner’s Song

Norman Mailer

1979 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

1978 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Elbow Room

James Alan McPherson

1977 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1976 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Humboldt’s Gift

Saul Bellow

1975 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

1974 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1973 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Optimist’s Daughter

Eudora Welty

1972 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

1971 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1970 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

1969 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

1968 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

1967 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud

1966 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter

1965 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Keepers of the House

Shirley Ann Grau

1964 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1963 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Reivers

William Faulkner (posthumous win)

1962 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Edge of Sadness

Edwin O’Connor

1961 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

1960 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Advise and Consent

Allen Drury

1959 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Robert Lewis Taylor

1958 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Death in the Family

James Agee

1957 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1956 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor

1955 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Fable

William Faulkner

1954 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1953 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

1952 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk

1951 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Town

Conrad Richter

1950 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Way West

A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

1949 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Guard of Honor

James Gould Cozzens

1948 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Tales of the South Pacific

James A. Michener

1947 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

All the King’s Men

Robert Penn Warren

1946 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1945 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Bell for Adano

John Hersey

1944 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Journey in the Dark

Martin Flavin

1943 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Dragon’s Teeth

Upton Sinclair

1942 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

In This Our Life

Ellen Glasgow

1941 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1940 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

1939 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Late George Apley

John Phillips Marquand

1937 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

1936 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Honey in the Horn

Harold L. Davis

1935 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Now in November

Josephine Winslow Johnson

1934 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Lamb in His Bosom

Caroline Miller

1933 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Store

Thomas Sigismund Stribling

1932 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

1931 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

1930 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Laughing Boy

Oliver La Farge

1929 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Scarlet Sister Mary

Julia Peterkin

1928 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

1927 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Early Autumn

Louis Bromfield

1926 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Arrowsmith

Sinclair Lewis (declined prize)

1925 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

So Big

Edna Ferber

1924 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Able McLaughlins

Margaret Wilson

1923 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

One of Ours

Willa Cather

1922 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Alice Adams

Booth Tarkington

1921 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

1920 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

1919 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

1918 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

His Family

Ernest Poole