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