| 1917 |
No award |
| 1918 |
Ernest Poole, His Family
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| 1919 |
Book Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
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| 1920 |
No award |
| 1921 |
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
|
| 1922 |
Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams
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| 1923 |
Willa Cather, One of Ours
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| 1924 |
Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins
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| 1925 |
Edna Ferber, So Big
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| 1926 |
Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (declined) |
| 1927 |
Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn
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| 1928 |
Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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| 1929 |
Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary
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| 1930 |
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy
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| 1931 |
Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace
|
| 1932 |
Pearl Buck, The Good Earth
|
| 1933 |
T. S. Stribling, The Store
|
| 1934 |
Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom
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| 1935 |
Josephine Johnson, Now in November
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| 1936 |
H. L. Davis, Honey in the Horn
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| 1937 |
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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| 1938 |
J. P. Marquand, The Late George Apley
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| 1939 |
Marjorie K. Rawlings, The Yearling
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| 1940 |
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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| 1941 |
No award |
| 1942 |
Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life
|
| 1943 |
Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth
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| 1944 |
Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
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| 1945 |
John Hersey, A Bell for Adano
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| 1946 |
No award |
| 1947 |
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
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| 1948 |
James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific
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| 1949 |
James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
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| 1950 |
A. B. Guthrie, The Way West
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| 1951 |
Conrad Richter, The Town
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| 1952 |
Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
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| 1953 |
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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| 1954 |
No award |
| 1955 |
William Faulkner, A Fable
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| 1956 |
MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville
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| 1957 |
No award |
| 1958 |
James Agee, A Death in the Family
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| 1959 |
Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jamie McPheeters
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| 1960 |
Allen Drury, Advise and Consent
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| 1961 |
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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| 1962 |
Edwin O'Connor, The Edge of Sadness
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| 1963 |
William Faulkner, The Reivers
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| 1964 |
No award |
| 1965 |
Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House
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| 1966 |
Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories
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| 1967 |
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
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| 1968 |
William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
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| 1969 |
N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
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| 1970 |
Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
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| 1971 |
No award |
| 1972 |
Wallace Stegner, Angels of Repose
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| 1973 |
Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
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| 1974 |
No award |
| 1975 |
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
|
| 1976 |
Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
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| 1977 |
No award |
| 1978 |
James A. 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
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| 1982 |
John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
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| 1983 |
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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| 1984 |
William Kennedy, Ironweed
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| 1985 |
Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
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| 1986 |
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
|
| 1987 |
Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
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| 1988 |
Toni Morrison, Beloved
|
| 1989 |
Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons
|
| 1990 |
Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
|
| 1991 |
John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
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| 1992 |
Jane Simley, 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
|
| 1917 |
No award |
| 1918 |
Jesse L. Williams, Why Marry?
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| 1919 |
No award |
| 1920 |
Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon
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| 1921 |
Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
|
| 1922 |
Eugene O'Neill, ‘Anna Christie’
|
| 1923 |
Owen Davis, Icebound
|
| 1924 |
Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent for Heaven
|
| 1925 |
Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted
|
| 1926 |
George Kelly, Craig's Wife
|
| 1927 |
Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
|
| 1928 |
Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
|
| 1929 |
Elmer Rice, Street Scene
|
| 1930 |
Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
|
| 1931 |
Susan Glaspell, Alison's House
|
| 1932 |
George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, Of Thee I Sing
|
| 1933 |
Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
|
| 1934 |
Sidney Kingsley, Men in White
|
| 1935 |
Zoë Akins, The Old Maid
|
| 1936 |
Robert Sherwood, Idiot's Delight
|
| 1937 |
George Kaufman, Moss Hart, and Ira Gershwin, You Can't Take It With You
|
| 1938 |
Thornton Wilder, Our Town
|
| 1939 |
Robert Sherwood, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
|
| 1940 |
William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life (declined) |
| 1941 |
Robert Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night
|
| 1942 |
No award |
| 1943 |
Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
|
| 1944 |
No award; special award for a musical play to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for Oklahoma!
|
| 1945 |
Mary Chase, Harvey
|
| 1946 |
Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay, State of the Union
|
| 1947 |
No award |
| 1948 |
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
|
| 1949 |
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
|
| 1950 |
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan, South Pacific
|
| 1951 |
No award |
| 1952 |
Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
|
| 1953 |
William Inge, Picnic
|
| 1954 |
John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August Moon
|
| 1955 |
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
|
| 1956 |
Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, The Diary of Anne Frank
|
| 1957 |
Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
|
| 1958 |
Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel
|
| 1959 |
Archibald MacLeish, J.B.
|
| 1960 |
Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, Fiorello!
|
| 1961 |
Tad Mosel, All the Way Home
|
| 1962 |
Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
|
| 1963 |
No award |
| 1964 |
No award |
| 1965 |
Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
|
| 1966 |
No award |
| 1967 |
Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
|
| 1968 |
No award |
| 1969 |
Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope
|
| 1970 |
Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody
|
| 1971 |
Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
|
| 1972 |
No award |
| 1973 |
Jason Miller, The Championship Season
|
| 1974 |
No award |
| 1975 |
Edward Albee, Seascape
|
| 1976 |
Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kieban, A Chorus Line
|
| 1977 |
Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
|
| 1978 |
Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game
|
| 1979 |
Sam Shepard, Buried Child
|
| 1980 |
Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly
|
| 1981 |
Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
|
| 1982 |
Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play
|
| 1983 |
Marsha Norman, 'night, Mother
|
| 1984 |
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
|
| 1985 |
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Sunday in the Park with George
|
| 1986 |
No award |
| 1987 |
August Wilson, Fences
|
| 1988 |
Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
|
| 1989 |
Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
|
| 1990 |
August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
|
| 1991 |
Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
|
| 1992 |
Robert Schenkan, The Kentucky Cycle
|
| 1993 |
Tony Kushner, Angels in America
|
| 1994 |
Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
|
| 1995 |
Horton Foote, The Young Man from
|
| 1992 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Collected Poems
|
| 1923 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; Eight Sonnets
|
| 1924 |
Robert Frost, New Hampshire
|
| 1925 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice
|
| 1926 |
Amy Lowell, What's O'Clock?
|
| 1927 |
Leonora Speyer, Fiddler's Farewell
|
| 1928 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Tristram Atlanta
|
| 1929 |
Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
|
| 1930 |
Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems
|
| 1931 |
Robert Frost, Collected Poems
|
| 1932 |
George Dillon, The Flowering Stone
|
| 1933 |
Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador
|
| 1934 |
Robert Hillyer, Collected Verse
|
| 1935 |
Audrey Wurdemann, Bright Ambush
|
| 1936 |
Robert Coffin, Strange Holiness
|
| 1937 |
Robert Frost, A Further Range
|
| 1938 |
Marya Zaturenska, Cold Morning Sky
|
| 1939 |
John Gould Fletcher, Selected Poems
|
| 1940 |
Mark Van Doren, Collected Poems
|
| 1941 |
Leonard Bacon, Sunderland Capture
|
| 1942 |
William Rose Benét, The Dust Which Is God
|
| 1943 |
Robert Frost, A Witness Tree
|
| 1944 |
Stephen Vincent Bené, Western Star
|
| 1945 |
Karl Shapiro, V-Letter and Other Poems
|
| 1946 |
No award |
| 1947 |
Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
|
| 1948 |
W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
|
| 1949 |
Peter Viereck, Terror and Decorum
|
| 1950 |
Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Adams
|
| 1951 |
Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems
|
| 1952 |
Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
|
| 1953 |
Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems, 1917–1952
|
| 1954 |
Theodore Roethke, The Waking
|
| 1955 |
Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems
|
| 1956 |
Elizabeth Bishop, Poems—North & South
|
| 1957 |
Richard Wilbur, Things of This World
|
| 1958 |
Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems 1954–1956
|
| 1959 |
Stanley Kunitz, Selected Poems: 1918–1958
|
| 1960 |
W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle
|
| 1961 |
Phyllis McGinley, Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades
|
| 1962 |
Alan Dugan, Poems
|
| 1963 |
William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Brueghel
|
| 1964 |
Louis Simpson, At the End of the Open Road
|
| 1965 |
John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs
|
| 1966 |
Richard Eberhart, Selected Poems
|
| 1967 |
Ann Sexton, Live or Die
|
| 1968 |
Anthony Hecht, The Hard Hours
|
| 1969 |
George Oppen, Of Being Numerous
|
| 1970 |
Richard Howard, United Subjects
|
| 1971 |
W. S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
|
| 1972 |
James Wright, Collected Poems
|
| 1973 |
Maxine Kumin, Up Country
|
| 1974 |
No award |
| 1975 |
Gary Snyder, Turtle Island
|
| 1976 |
John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
|
| 1977 |
James Merrill, Divine Comedies
|
| 1978 |
Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems
|
| 1979 |
Robert Penn Warren, New and Then
|
| 1980 |
Donald Justice, Selected Poems
|
| 1981 |
James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem
|
| 1982 |
Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
|
| 1983 |
Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems
|
| 1984 |
Mary Oliver, American Primitive
|
| 1985 |
Carolyn Kizer, Yin
|
| 1986 |
Henry Taylor, The Flying Change
|
| 1987 |
Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah
|
| 1988 |
William Meredith, Partial Accounts
|
| 1989 |
Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems
|
| 1990 |
Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End
|
| 1991 |
Mona Van Duyn, Near Changes
|
| 1992 |
James Tate, Selected Poems
|
| 1993 |
Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
|
| 1994 |
Yousef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular
|
| 1995 |
Philip Levine, Simple Truth
|
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