Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917.
The awards are given on the recommendations of a board of jurors for journalism, letters, music and drama. The awards for letters include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, or autobiography and history.
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2008 The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
DIAZ, JUNOT
2007 The road
MCCARTHY, Cormac
2006 March
BROOKS, Geraldine
2005 Gilead
ROBINSON, Marilynne
2004 The known world
JONES, Edward P.
2003 Middlesex
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey
2002 Empire falls
RUSSO, Richard
2001 The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay
CHABON, Michael
2000 Interpreter of maladies
LAHIRI, Jhumpa
1999 The hours
CUNNINGHAM, Michael
1998 American pastoral
ROTH, Philip
1997 Martin Dressler: the tale of an American dreamer
MILLHAUSER, Steven
1996 Independence Day
FORD, Richard
1995 The stone diaries
SHIELDS, Carol
1994 The shipping news
PROULX, E. Annie
1993 A good scent from a strange mountain
BUTLER, Robert Olen
1992 A thousand acres
SMILEY, Jane
1991 Rabbit at rest
UPDIKE, John
1990 Mambo Kings play songs of love
HIJUELOS, Oscar
1989 Breathing lessons
TYLER, Anne
1988 Beloved
MORRISON, Toni
1987 A summons to Memphis
TAYLOR, Peter
1986 Lonesome dove
MCMURTRY, Larry
1985 Foreign affairs
LURIE, Alison
1984 Ironweed
KENNEDY, William
1983 The color purple
WALKER, Alice
1982 Rabbit is rich
UPDIKE, John
1981 A confederacy of dunces
TOOLE, John Kennedy
1980 The executioner's song
MAILER, Norman
1979 The stories of John Cheever
CHEEVER, John
1978 Elbow room
MCPHERSON, James Alan
1977 (no award)
1976 Humboldt's gift
BELLOW, Saul
1975 The killer angels
SHAARA, Jeff
1974 (no award)
1973 The optimist's daughter
WELTY, Eudora
1972 Angle of repose
STEGNER, Wallace Earle
1971 (no award)
1970 Collected stories of Jean Stafford
STAFFORD, Jean
1969 House made of dawn
MOMADAY, Scott N.
1968 The confessions of Nat Turner
STYRON, William
1967 The fixer
MALAMUD, Bernard