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Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzer Prize Winning Books and Authors
| Year | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Steinbeck |
| 1942 | In This Our Life | Glasgow |
| 1943 | Dragon's Teeth | Sinclair |
| 1944 | Journey in the Dark | Flavin |
| 1945 | A Bell for Adano | Hersey |
| 1947 | All the King's Men | Penn Warren |
| 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | Michener |
| 1949 | Guard of Honor | Cozzens |
| 1950 | The Way West | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
| 1951 | The Town | Richter |
| 1952 | The Caine Mutiny | Wouk |
| 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 | Harper Lee |
| 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | O'Conner |
| 1963 | The Reivers | Faulkner |
| 1965 | The Keepers of the House | Grau |
| 1966 | Collected Stories | Porter |
| 1967 | The Fixer | Malamud |
| 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | Styron |
| 1969 | House Made of Dawn | Momaday |
| 1970 | Collected Stories | Stafford |
| 1972 | Angle of Repose | Stegner |
| 1973 | The Optimists Daughter | Welty |
| 1975 | The Killer Angels | Shaara |
| 1976 | Humboldt's Gift | Bellow |
| 1978 | Elbow Room | McPherson |
| 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever | John 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 |