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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
This prize has been awarded annually since 1918 for fiction in book form by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
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Alfred Bertram ''A.B.'' Guthrie, Jr. (born 1901, died 1991)
American novelist.
- 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Way West
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Bernard Malamud (born 1914, died 1986)
American novelist.
- 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Fixer
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Booth Tarkington (born 1869, died 1946)
American novelist.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams
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Conrad Richter (born 1890, died 1968)
American novelist.
- 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Town
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Edwin O'Connor (born 1918, died 1968)
American novelist.
- 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for the Edge of Sadness
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Ernest Poole (born 1880, died 1950)
American novelist.
- 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for His Family
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Harold L. Davis (born 1896, died 1960)
American novelist.
- 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Honey in the Horn
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Herman Wouk (born 1915)
American novelist.
- 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Caine Mutiny
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James A. Michener (born 1907, died 1997)
American novelist.
- 1948 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Tales of the South Pacific
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James Gould Cozzens (born 1903, died 1978)
American novelist.
- 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Guard of Honor
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James Agee (born 1909, died 1955)
American novelist, screenwriter, and poet.
- 1958 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for A Death in the Family
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James Alan McPherson (born 1943)
American short-story writer.
- 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Elbow Room
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John Updike (born 1932)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, in 1982 for Rabbit is Rich and in 1991 for Rabbit at Rest
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John P. Marquand (born 1893, died 1980)
American novelist.
- 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Late George Apley
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John Kennedy Toole (born 1937, died 1969)
American author who committed suicide before his first, and only, novel was published.
- 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for A Confederacy of Dunces
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John Hersey (born 1914, died 1993)
American novelist and journalist.
- 1945 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for A Bell for Adano
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John Steinbeck (born 1902, died 1968)
American novelist.
- 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Grapes of Wrath
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John Cheever (born 1912, died 1982)
American short-story writer.
- 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Stories of John Cheever
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Larry McMurtry (born 1936)
American novelist.
- 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Lonesome Dove
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Louis Bromfield (born 1896, died 1956)
American novelist.
- 1927 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Early Autumn
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MacKinlay Kantor (born 1904, died 1977)
American novelist.
- 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Andersonville
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Martin Flavin (born 1883, died 1967)
American novelist.
- 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Journey in the Dark
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Michael Shaara (born 1929, died 1988)
American novelist.
- 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Killer Angels
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Norman Mailer (born 1923)
American novelist.
- 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Executioner''s Song
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Oliver LaFarge (born 1901, died 1963)
American novelist and archaeologist.
- 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Laughing Boy
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Oscar Hijuelos (born 1952)
American novelist.
- 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
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Peter Taylor (born 1917, died 1994)
American novelist.
- 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for A Summons to Memphis
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Philip Roth (born 1933)
American novelist.
- 1998 Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral
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Robert Lewis Taylor
American novelist.
- 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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Robert Olen Butler (born 1945)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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Robert Penn Warren (born 1905, died 1989)
American novelist and poet.
- 1947 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for All the King''s Men
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N. Scott Momaday (born 1934)
American novelist.
- 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for House Made of Dawn
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Sinclair Lewis (born 1885, died 1951)
American novelist.
- 1926 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Arrowsmith
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Thomas Sigismund ''T.S.'' Stribling (born 1881, died 1965)
American novelist.
- 1933 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Store
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Upton Sinclair (born 1878, died 1968)
American novelist.
- 1943 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Dragon''s Teeth
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William Kennedy (born 1928)
American novelist.
- 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Ironweed
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William Styron (born 1925)
American novelist.
- 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Confessions of Nat Turner
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William Faulkner (born 1897, died 1962)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, in 1955 for A Fable and in 1963 for The Reivers
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Allen Drury (born 1918)
American novelist.
- 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Advice and Consent
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Wallace Stegner (born 1909, died 1993)
American novelist.
- 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Angle of Repose
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Thornton Wilder (born 1897, died 1975)
American novelist and playwright.
- 1928 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Saul Bellow (born 1915)
American novelist.
- 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Humboldt''s Gift
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Ernest Hemingway (born 1899, died 1961)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Old Man and the Sea
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Richard Ford
American novelist.
- 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Independence Day
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Steven Millhauser
- 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
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Michael Cunningham
- 1999 Pulitzer winner for fiction for the novel Hours
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
This prize has been awarded annually since 1918 for fiction in book form by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
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Alison Lurie (born 1926)
American novelist.
- 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Foreign Affairs
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Anne Tyler (born 1941)
American novelist.
- 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Breathing Lessons
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Caroline Miller (born 1903)
American novelist.
- 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Lamb in His Bosom
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E. Annie Proulx (born 1935)
American novelist.
- 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Shipping News
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Edith Wharton (born 1862, died 1937)
American novelist.
- 1921 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Age of Innocence
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Edna Ferber (born 1887, died 1968)
American novelist.
- 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for So Big
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Ellen Glasgow (born 1874, died 1945)
American novelist.
- 1942 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for In This Our Life
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Harper Lee (born 1926)
American novelist.
- 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for To Kill a Mockingbird
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Jane Smiley (born 1949)
American novelist.
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for A Thousand Acres
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Jean Stafford (born 1915, died 1979)
American short-story writer.
- 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Collected Stories
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Josephine W. Johnson (born 1910, died 1990)
American novelist.
- 1935 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Now in November
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Julia M. Peterkin (born 1880, died 1961)
American novelist.
- 1929 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Scarlet Sister Mary
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Margaret Wilson (born 1882, died 1973)
American novelist.
- 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Able McLaughlins
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Margaret Ayer Barnes (born 1886, died 1967)
American novelist and playwright.
- 1931 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Years of Grace
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Margaret Mitchell (born 1900, died 1949)
American novelist.
- 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Gone with the Wind
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (born 1896, died 1953)
American novelist.
- 1939 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Yearling
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Pearl S. Buck (born 1892, died 1973)
American novelist.
- 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Good Earth
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Shirley Ann Grau (born 1929)
American novelist and journalist.
- 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Keepers of the House
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Toni Morrison (born 1931)
American novelist.
- 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Beloved
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Willa Cather (born 1873, died 1947)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for One of Ours
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Alice Walker (born 1944)
American novelist, essayist and poet.
- 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Color Purple
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Eudora Welty (born 1909)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Optimist''s Daughter
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Katherine Anne Porter (born 1890, died 1980)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1966 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for Collected Stories
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Carol Shields
American novelist.
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Stone Diaries
