Pulitzer Prize Winners for Novel/Fiction
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| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| His Family | Ernest Poole | 1917 |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington | 1918 |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 1920 |
| Alice Adams | Booth Tarkington | 1921 |
| One of Ours | Willa Cather | 1923 |
| The Able McLaughlins | Margaret Wilson | 1923 |
| So Big | Edna Ferber | 1924 |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis | 1925 |
| Early Autumn | Louis Bromfield | 1926 |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder | 1927 |
| Scarlet Sister Mary | Julia Peterkin | 1928 |
| Laughing Boy | Oliver La Farge | 1929 |
| Years of Grace | Margaret Ayer Barnes | 1930 |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 1931 |
| The Store | Thomas Sigismund Stribling | 1932 |
| Lamb in His Bosom | Caroline Miller | 1933 |
| Now in November | Josephine Winslow Johnson | 1934 |
| Honey in the Horn | Harold L. Davis | 1935 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 |
| The Late George Apley | John Phillips Marquand | 1937 |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1938 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 |
| In This Our Life | Ellen Glasgow | 1941 |
| Dragon's Teeth | Upton Sinclair | 1942 |
| Journey in the Dark | Martin Flavin | 1943 |
| A Bell for Adano | John Hersey | 1944 |
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | 1946 |
| Tales of the South Pacific | James A. Michener | 1947 |
| Guard of Honor | James Gould Cozzens | 1948 |
| The Way West | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. | 1949 |
| The Town | Conrad Richter | 1950 |
| The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk | 1951 |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 1952 |
| A Fable | William Faulkner | 1954 |
| Andersonville | MacKinlay Kantor | 1955 |
| A Death in the Family | James Agee | 1956 |
| The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | Robert Lewis Taylor | 1958 |
| Advise and Consent | Allen Drury | 1959 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 |
| The Edge of Sadness | Edwin O'Connor | 1961 |
| The Reivers | William Faulkner | 1962 |
| The Keepers of the House | Shirley Ann Grau | 1964 |
| The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | Katherine Anne Porter | 1965 |
| The Fixer | Bernard Malamud | 1966 |
| The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron | 1967 |
| House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday | 1968 |
| The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford | Jean Stafford | 1970 |
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | 1971 |
| The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty | 1972 |
| The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | 1974 |
| Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow | 1975 |
| Elbow Room | James Alan McPherson | 1977 |
| The Stories of John Cheever | John Cheever | 1978 |
| The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer | 1979 |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 1980 |
| Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike | 1981 |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 1982 |
| Ironweed | William Kennedy | 1983 |
| Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie | 1984 |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 1985 |
| A Summons to Memphis | Peter Taylor | 1986 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 |
| Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler | 1988 |
| The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Oscar Hijuelos | 1989 |
| Rabbit at Rest | John Updike | 1990 |
| A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 1991 |
| A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | Robert Olen Butler | 1992 |
| The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | 1993 |
| The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | 1993 |
| Independence Day | Richard Ford | 1995 |
| Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer | Steven Millhauser | 1996 |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 1997 |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 1998 |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2000 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | 2000 |
| Empire Falls | Richard Russo | 2001 |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2002 |
| The Known World | Edward P. Jones | 2003 |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 2004 |
| March | Geraldine Brooks | 2005 |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 2006 |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | 2007 |