Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1918  Ernest Poole, His Family

1919  Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

1920  No award

1921  Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

1922  Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams

1923  Willa Cather, One of Ours

1924  Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins

1925  Edna Ferber, So Big

1926  Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

1927  Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn

1928  Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1929  Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary

1930  Oliver LaFarge, Laughing Boy

1931  Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace

1932  Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

1933  T. S. Stribling, The Store

1934  Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom

1935  Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

1936  Harold L. Davis, Honey in the Horn

1937  Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

1938  John Phillips Marquand, The Late George Apley

1939  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

1940  John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

1941  No award

1942  Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

1943  Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth

1944  Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark

1945  John Hersey, A Bell for Adano

1946  No award

1947  Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

1948  James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific

1949  James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honour

1950  A. B. Guthrie jr., The Way West

1951  Conrad Richter, The Town

1952  Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

1953  Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

1954  No award

1955  William Faulkner, A Fable

1956  Mackinley Kanter, Andersonville

1957  No award

1958  James Agee, A Death in the Family

1959  Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jamie McPheeters

1960  Allen Drury, Advise and Consent

1961  Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

1962  Edwin O'Connor, The Ede of Sadness

1963  William Faulkner, The Reivers

1964  No award

1965  Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House

1966  Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Kathrine Anne Porter

1967  Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

1968  William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

1969  N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn

1970  Jean Stafford, Collected Stories

1971  No award

1972  Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

1973  Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter

1974  No award

1975  Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

1976  Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift

1977  No award

1978  James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room

1979  John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever

1980  Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song

1981  John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

1982  John Updike, Rabbit is Rich

1983  Alice Walker, The Color Purple

1984  William Kennedy, Ironweed

1985  Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs

1986  Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

1987  Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis

1988  Toni Morrison, Beloved

1989  Toni Tyler, Breathing Lessons

1990  Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

1991  John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

1992  Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

1993  Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain

1994  E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

1995  Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

1996  Richard Ford, Independence Day

1997  Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler

1998  Philip Roth, American Pastoral

1999  Michael Cunningham, The Hours

2000  Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

2001  Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2002  Richard Russo, Empire Falls

2003  Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

2004  Edward P. Jones, The Known World

2005  Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

2006  Geraldine Brooks, March

2007  Cormac McCarthy, The Road

2008  Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2009  Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

2010  Paul Harding, Tinkers