1918-2008
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917. The awards are given on the recommendations of a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. Besides Fiction, which is listed here, the awards for Letters include Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, and History.
2008: Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007: Cormac McCarthy - The Road
2006: Geraldine Brooks - March
2005: Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
2004: Edward P. Jones - The Known World
2003: Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
2002: Richard Russo - Empire Falls
2001: Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2000: Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
1999: Michael Cunningham - The Hours
1998: Philip Roth - American Pastoral
1997: Steven Millhauser - The Tale of an American Dreamer
1996: Richard Ford - Independence Day
1995: Carol Shields - Stone Diaries
1994: E. Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
1993: Robert Olen Butler - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1992: Jane Smiley - Thousand Acres
1991: John Updike - Rabbit at Rest
1990: Oscar Hijuelos - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1989: Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
1988: Toni Morrison - Beloved
1987: Peter Taylor - A Summons to Memphis
1986: Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
1985: Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
1984: William Kennedy - Ironweed
1983: Alice Walker - The Color Purple
1982: John Updike - Rabbit is Rich
1981: John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
1980: Norman Mailer - The Executioner’s Song
1979: John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
1978: James Alan McPherson - Elbow Room
1977: No award
1976: Saul Bellow - Humboldt’s Gift
1975: Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels
1974: No award
1973: Eudora Welty - The Optimist’s Daughter
1972: Wallace Stegner - The Angle of Repose
1971: No award
1970: Jean Stafford - Collected Stories
1969: N. Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn
1968: William Styron - The Confessions of Nat Turner
1967: Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
1966: Katherine Anne Porter - Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1965: Shirley Anne Grau - The Keepers of the House
1964: No award
1963: William Faulkner - The Reivers
1962: Edwin O’Connor - The Edge of Sadness
1961: Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
1960: Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
1959: Robert Lewis Taylor - The Travels of Jamie McPheeters
1958: James Agee - A Death in the Family
1957: No award
1956: Mackinlay Kantor - Andersonville
1955: William Faulkner - A Fable
1954: No award
1953: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
1952: Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
1951: Conrad Richter - The Town
1950: A.B. Guthrie - The Way West
1949: James Gould Cozzens - Guard of Honor
1948: James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific
1947: Robert Penn Warren - All the King’s Men
1946: No award
1945: John Hersey - A Bell for Adano
1944: Martin Flavin - Journey in the Dark
1943: Upton Sinclair - Dragon’s Teeth
1942: Ellen Glasgow - In this Our Life
1941: No award
1940: John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
1939: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
1938: John Phillips Marquand - The Late George Apley
1937: Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
1936: Harold Davis - Honey in the Horn
1935: Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November
1934: Caroline Miller - Lamb in his Bosom
1933: T. S. Stribling - The Store
1932: Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes - Years of Grace
1930: Oliver La Farge - Laughing Boy
1929: Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary
1928: Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1927: Louis Bromfield - Early Autumn
1926: Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith
1925: Edna Ferber - So Big
1924: Margaret Wilson - The Able McLaughlins
1923: Willa Cather - One of Ours
1922: Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams
1921: Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
1920: No award
1919: Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons
1918: Ernest Poole - His Family