Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction: 1917-2011

Submitted by burneyfan on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 02:51
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  1. 2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  2. 2010 Tinkers by Tom Harding
  3. 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  4. 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  5. 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  6. 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
  7. 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  8. 2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  9. 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  10. 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  11. 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  12. 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  13. 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  14. 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  15. 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
  16. 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
  17. 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  18. 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  19. 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
  20. 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  21. 1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
  22. 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
  23. 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
  24. 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
  25. 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
  26. 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  27. 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
  28. 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
  29. 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  30. 1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
  31. 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  32. 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
  33. 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (well, I've read a couple, but that hardly counts!)
  34. 1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  35. 1977 No Award
  36. 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
  37. 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  38. 1974 No Award
  39. 1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
  40. 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  41. 1971 No Award
  42. 1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (a few, but not enough to count)
  43. 1969 House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday
  44. 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
  45. 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
  46. 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
  47. 1965 The Keepers Of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
  48. 1964 No Award
  49. 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner
  50. 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
  51. 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  52. 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
  53. 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
  54. 1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee
  55. 1957 No Award
  56. 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
  57. 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
  58. 1954 No Award
  59. 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  60. 1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
  61. 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter
  62. 1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
  63. 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
  64. 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
  65. 1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  66. 1946 No Award
  67. 1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
  68. 1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
  69. 1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
  70. 1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
  71. 1941 No Award
  72. 1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  73. 1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  74. 1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
  75. 1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  76. 1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
  77. 1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
  78. 1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
  79. 1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling
  80. 1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  81. 1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
  82. 1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
  83. 1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
  84. 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  85. 1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
  86. 1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
  87. 1925 So Big by Edna Ferber
  88. 1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
  89. 1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather
  90. 1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
  91. 1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  92. 1920 No Award
  93. 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
  94. 1918 His Family by Ernest Poole
  95. 1917 No Award
Author Comments: 

Guess I don't do too well on the Pulitzer prizewinners!

Updated 4/19/11: added 2011 winner

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Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction