DPL - Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize - Fiction, 1940 - present

The Pulitzer Prizes honor excellence in journalism and the arts.


2011	A visit from the Goon Squad Egan, Jennifer. Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.

2010	Tinkers Harding, Paul, 1967- On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve.

2009	Olive Kitteridge Strout, Elizabeth. At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)

2008	The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao Díaz, Junot, 1968-

2007	The road McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.

2006	March : a novel Brooks, Geraldine.

2005	Gilead Robinson, Marilynne.

2004	The known world Jones, Edward P.

2003	Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey.

2002	Empire Falls Russo, Richard, 1949-

2001	The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel Chabon, Michael.

2000	Interpreter of maladies : stories Lahiri, Jhumpa.

1999	The hours Cunningham, Michael, 1952-

1998	American pastoral Roth, Philip.

1997	Martin Dressler : the tale of an American dreamer Millhauser, Steven.

1996	Independence day Ford, Richard, 1944-

1995	The stone diaries Shields, Carol.

1994	The shipping news Proulx, Annie.

1993	A good scent from a strange mountain : stories Butler, Robert Olen.

1992	A thousand acres Smiley, Jane.

1991	Rabbit at rest Updike, John.

1990	The mambo kings play songs of love Hijuelos, Oscar.

1989	Breathing lessons Tyler, Anne.

1988	Beloved Morrison, Toni.

1987	A summons to Memphis Taylor, Peter Hillsman, 1917-

1986	Lonesome Dove : a novel McMurtry, Larry.

1985	Foreign affairs Lurie, Alison.

1984	Ironweed : a novel Kennedy, William, 1928-

1983	The color purple : a novel Walker, Alice, 1944-

1982	Rabbit is rich Updike, John.

1981	A confederacy of dunces Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.

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 : a novel Shaara, Michael.

1974	(no award)

1973	The optimist's daughter. Welty, Eudora, 1909-

1972	Angle of repose Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-

1971	(no award)

1970	Short stories Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979.

1969	House made of dawn Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-

1968	The confessions of Nat Turner Styron, William, 1925-

1967	The fixer. Malamud, Bernard. In Tsarist Russia, Yakov is accused of a ritual murder he did not commit.

1966	Collected Stories Porter, Katherine Anne

1965	The keepers of the house : a novel Grau, Shirley Ann. Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have, for seven generations, been pillars of their southern community. Extraordinary family lore has been passed down to Abigail Howland, but not all of it. When shocking facts come to light about her late grandfather William's relationship with Margaret Carmichael, a black housekeeper, the community is outraged, and quickly gathers to vent its fury on Abigail. Alone in the house the Howlands built, she is at once shaken by those who have betrayed her, and determined to punish the town that has persecuted her and her kin. Morally intricate, graceful, and suspenseful, The Keepers of the House has become a modern classic.

1964	(no award)

1963	The reivers, a reminiscence. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

1962	The edge of sadness. O'Connor, Edwin.

1961	To kill a mockingbird Lee, Harper.

1960	Advise and consent. Drawings by Arthur Shilstone. Drury, Allen.

1959	The travels of Jaimie McPheeters Taylor, Robert Lewis.

1958	A death in the family Agee, James, 1909-1955.

1957	(no award)

1956	Andersonville Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904-

1955	A fable Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

1954	(no award)

1953	The old man and the sea Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

1952	The Caine mutiny, a novel of World War II. Wouk, Herman, 1915-

1951	The town Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.

1950	The way West Guthrie, A. B. (Alfred Bertram), 1901-

1949	Guard of honor Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978.

1948	Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener. Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997.

1947	All the king's men Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.

1946	(no award)

1945	BELL FOR ADANO Hersey, John, 1914-

1944	Journey in the Dark Flavin, Martin

1943	Dragon's Teeth Sinclair, Upton

1942	In This Our Life Glasgow, Ellen

1941	(no award)

1940	The grapes of wrath Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.

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