Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction: 1917-2012

Submitted by burneyfan on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 02:51
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  1. 2012 No award
  2. 2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  3. 2010 Tinkers by Tom Harding
  4. 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  5. 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  6. 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  7. 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
  8. 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  9. 2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  10. 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  11. 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  12. 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  13. 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  14. 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  15. 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  16. 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
  17. 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
  18. 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  19. 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  20. 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
  21. 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  22. 1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
  23. 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
  24. 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
  25. 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
  26. 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
  27. 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  28. 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
  29. 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
  30. 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  31. 1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
  32. 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  33. 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
  34. 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (well, I've read a couple, but that hardly counts!)
  35. 1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  36. 1977 No Award
  37. 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
  38. 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  39. 1974 No Award
  40. 1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
  41. 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  42. 1971 No Award
  43. 1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (a few, but not enough to count)
  44. 1969 House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday
  45. 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
  46. 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
  47. 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
  48. 1965 The Keepers Of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
  49. 1964 No Award
  50. 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner
  51. 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
  52. 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  53. 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
  54. 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
  55. 1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee
  56. 1957 No Award
  57. 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
  58. 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
  59. 1954 No Award
  60. 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  61. 1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
  62. 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter
  63. 1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
  64. 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
  65. 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
  66. 1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  67. 1946 No Award
  68. 1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
  69. 1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
  70. 1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
  71. 1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
  72. 1941 No Award
  73. 1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  74. 1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  75. 1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
  76. 1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  77. 1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
  78. 1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
  79. 1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
  80. 1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling
  81. 1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  82. 1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
  83. 1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
  84. 1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
  85. 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  86. 1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
  87. 1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
  88. 1925 So Big by Edna Ferber
  89. 1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
  90. 1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather
  91. 1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
  92. 1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  93. 1920 No Award
  94. 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
  95. 1918 His Family by Ernest Poole
  96. 1917 No Award
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Guess I don't do too well on the Pulitzer prizewinners!

Updated 9/11/12: added 2012 info

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