PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS
Year Title Author
1917 no award
1918 His Family Ernest Poole
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington
1920 no award
1921 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
1922 Alice Adams Booth Tarkington
1923 One of Ours Willa Cather
1924 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson
1925 So Big Edna Ferber
Sinclair
1926 Arrowsmith
Lewis (declined)
1927 Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady Louis Bromfield
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary Julia Peterkin
1930 Laughing Boy Oliver La Farge
Margaret Ayer
1931 Years of Grace
Barnes
1932 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
1933 The Store T.S. Stribling
1934 Lamb in His Bosom Caroline Miller
Josephine
1935 Now in November
Winslow Johnson
1936 Honey in the Horn H.L. Davis
Margaret
1937 Gone with the Wind
Mitchell
1938 The Late George Apley: A Novel in John P.
Year Title Author
the Form of a Memoir Marquand
Marjorie Kinnan
1939 The Yearling
Rawlings
1940 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
1941 no award
1942 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow
1943 Dragon’s Teeth Upton Sinclair
1944 Journey in the Dark Martin Flavin
1945 A Bell for Adano John Hersey
1946 no award
Robert Penn
1947 All the King’s Men
Warren
1948 Tales of the South Pacific James Michener
James Gould
1949 Guard of Honor
Cozzens
1950 The Way West A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
Conrad Michael
1951 The Town
Richter
The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World
1952 Herman Wouk
War II
Ernest
1953 The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway
1954 no award
1955 A Fable William Faulkner
MacKinlay
1956 Andersonville
Kantor
1957 no award
1958 A Death in the Family** James Agee
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Robert Lewis
Year Title Author
Taylor
1960 Advise and Consent Allen Drury
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
1962 The Edge of Sadness Edwin O’Connor
1963 The Reivers: A Reminiscence William Faulkner
1964 no award
1965 The Keepers of the House Shirley Ann Grau
The Collected Stories of Katherine Katherine Anne
1966
Anne Porter Porter
Bernard
1967 The Fixer
Malamud
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
N. Scott
1969 House Made of Dawn
Momaday
The Collected Stories of Jean
1970 Jean Stafford
Stafford
1971 no award
1972 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
1973 The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
1974 no award
1975 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara
1976 Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow
1977 no award
James Alan
1978 Elbow Room
McPherson
1979 The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever
1980 The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces** John Kennedy
Year Title Author
Toole
1982 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike
1983 The Color Purple Alice Walker
1984 Ironweed William Kennedy
1985 Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie
1986 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
1987 A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor
1988 Beloved Toni Morrison
1989 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of
1990 Oscar Hijuelos
Love
1991 Rabbit at Rest John Updike
1992 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
A Good Scent from a Strange Robert Olen
1993
Mountain: Stories Butler
1994 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
1995 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields
1996 Independence Day Richard Ford
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an Steven
1997
American Dreamer Millhauser
1998 American Pastoral Philip Roth
Michael
1999 The Hours
Cunningham
2000 Interpreter of Maladies: Stories Jhumpa Lahiri
The Amazing Adventures of
2001 Michael Chabon
Kavalier & Clay
2002 Empire Falls Richard Russo
2003 Middlesex Jeffrey
Year Title Author
Eugenides
2004 The Known World Edward P. Jones
Marilynne
2005 Gilead
Robinson
Geraldine
2006 March
Brooks
Cormac
2007 The Road
McCarthy
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar
2008 Junot Díaz
Wao
2009 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
2010 Tinkers Paul Harding
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
2012 no award
2013 The Orphan Master’s Son Adam Johnson
2014 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
2015 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
Viet Thanh
2016 The Sympathizer
Nguyen
Colson
2017 The Underground Railroad
Whitehead
Andrew Sean
2018 Less
Greer
2019 The Overstory Richard Powers
Colson
2020 The Nickel Boys
Whitehead
2021 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich
2022 The Netanyahus: An Account of a Joshua Cohen
Minor and Ultimately Even
Negligible Episode in the History of
Year Title Author
a Very Famous Family
Barbara
2023 Demon Copperhead
Kingsolver
Trust Hernan Diaz
Jayne Anne
2024 Night Watch
Philips
2025 James Percival Everett
*Work published and
prize awarded
posthumously.
