Pulitzer Prize Winners in Fiction

1918 – His Family (Poole)

1919 – The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington)

1921 – The Age of Innocence (Wharton)

1922 – Alice Adams (Tarkington)

1923 – One of Ours (Cather)

1924 – The Able Mclaughlins (Wilson)

1925 – So Big (Ferber)

1926 – Arrowsmith (Lewis)

1927 – Early Autumn (Bromfield)

1928 – The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)

1929 – Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)

1930 – Laughing Boy (Lafarge)

1931 – Years of Grace (Barnes)

1932 – The Good Earth (Buck)

1933 – The Store (Stribling)

1934 – Lamb in His Bosom (Miller)

1935 – Now in November (Johnson)

1936 – Honey in the Horn (Davis)

1937 – Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)

1938 – The Late George Apley (Marquand)

1939 – The Yearling (Rawlings)

1940 – The Grapes of Wrath (Steinback)

1942 – In This Our Life (Glasgow)

1943 – Dragon’s Teeth I (Sinclair)

1944 – Journey in the Dark (Flavin)

1945 – A Bell for Adano (Hersey)

1947 – All the King’s Men (Warren)

1948 – Tales of South Pacific (Michener)

1949 – Guard of Honor (Cozzens)

1950 – The Way West (Guthrie)

1951 – The Town (Richter)

1952 – The Caine Mutiny (Woulk)

1953 – The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)

1955 – A Fable (Faulkner)

1956 – Andersonville (Kantor)

1958 – A Death in the Family (Agee)

1959 – The Travels of Jaimie Mcpheeters (Taylor)

1960 – Advise and Consent (Drury)

1961 – To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)

1962 – The Edge of Sadness (O’Connor)

1963 – The Reivers: A Reminiscence (Faulkner)

1965 – The Keepers of the House (Grau)

1966 – The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (Porter)

1967 – The Fixer (Malamud)

1968 – The Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)

1969 – House Made of Dawn (Momaday)

1970 – The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (Stafford)
1972 – Angle of Repose (Stegner)
1973 – The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
1975 – The Killer Angels (Shaara)
1976 – Humbolt’s Gift (Bellow)
1978 – Elbow Room: Stories (Mcpherson)
1979 – The Stories of John Cheever (Cheever)
1980 – The Executioner’s Song (Mailer)
1981 – A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
1982 – Rabbit is Rich (Updike)
1983 – The Color Purple (Walker)
1984 – Ironweed (Kennedy)
1985 – Foreign Affairs (Lurie)
1986 – Lonesome Dove (Mcmurtry)
1987 – A Summons to Memphis (Taylor)
1988 – Beloved (Morrison)
1989 – Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
1990 – The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Hijuelos)
1991 – Rabbit at Rest (Updike)
1992 – A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
1993 – A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain (Butler)
1994 – The Shipping News (Proulx)
1995 – The Stone Diaries (Shields)
1996 – Independence Day (Ford)
1997 – Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser)
1998 – American Pastoral (Roth)
1999 – The Hours (Cunningham)
2000 – Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
2001 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon)
2002 – Empire Falls (Russo)
2003 – Middlesex (Eugenides)
2004 – The Known World (Jones)
2005 – Gilead (Robinson)
2006 – March (Brooks)
2007 – The Road (McCarthy)
2008 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Diaz)

2009 – Olive Kitteridge (Strout)