Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author - preferably dealing with American life.

• 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

• 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

• 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

• 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter

• 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

• 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• 1954: No award given

• 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner

• 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

• 1957: No award given

• 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee

• 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

• 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

• 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor

• 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner

• 1964: No award given

• 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

• 1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter

• 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

• 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

• 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

• 1970: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford

• 1971: No award given

• 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

• 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

• 1974: No award given ^[1]

• 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

• 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

• 1977: No award given

• 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

• 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

• 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

• 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

• 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

• 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy

• 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

• 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

• 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

• 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison

• 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

• 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

• 1991: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike

• 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

• 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

• 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

• 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

• 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford

• 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

• 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth

• 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham

• 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

• 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

• 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo

• 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones

• 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks

• 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz