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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York Globe, established the Pulitzer Prize through an endowment to Columbia University. The Fiction Award is given annually for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably dealing with American life.

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 La Farge 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 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 Honor
1950: A.B. Guthrie 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: Mackinlay Kantor Andersonville
1957: No award
1958: James Agee A Death in the Family
1959: Robert Lewis TaylorThe Travels of Jamie McPheeters
1960: Allen Drury Advise and Consent
1961: Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
1962: Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness
1963: William Faulkner The Reivers
1964: No award
1965: Shirley Anne Grau The Keepers of the House
1966: Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories of Katherine 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 The 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: Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons
1990: Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1991: John Updike Rabbit at Rest
1992: Jane Smiley Thousand Acres
1993: Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1994: E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
1995: Carol Shields Stone Diaries
1996: Richard Ford Independence Day
1997: Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
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