Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven Amer- 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton
ican Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Wilder
Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished ction by
an American author, preferably dealing with American 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
life, published during the preceding calendar year. As the
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, it was one of the original
Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with 1.3 1930s
seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[1] (No
Novel prize was awarded in 1917; the rst was awarded 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
in 1918.)[2]
1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily a
total of three.[2] 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

1933: The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling

1 Winners
1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
In 31 years under the Novel name, the prize was 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow
awarded 27 times; in its rst 69 years to 2016 under the Johnson
Fiction name, 62 times. In 11 years, no novel received
the award. It has never been shared by two authors.[2] 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
Three writers have won two prizes each in the Fiction
category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Updike.
1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Mar-
quand
1.1 1910s
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1917: no award given

1918: His Family by Ernest Poole 1.4 1940s

1919: The Magnicent Ambersons by Booth Tark-
ington 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

1941: no award given[4]

1.2 1920s
1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1920: no award given[3]
1943: Dragons Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
1946: no award given
1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

1925: So Big by Edna Ferber 1947: All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren

1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined 1948: Tales of the South Pacic by James A. Mich-
prize) ener

1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromeld 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

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1.5 1950s
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 Heming-
way
1954: No award given
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1957: No award given[5]
The Voice At The Back Door by Elizabeth
Spencer
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
(posthumous win)
1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert
Lewis Taylor
1.6 1960s
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 (posthu-
mous win)
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
1.7 1970s
1970: The Collected Stories of Jean Staord by Jean
Staord
1971: No award given [6]
1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973: The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty
WINNERS
1974: No award given[7]
Gravitys Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976: Humboldts Gift by Saul Bellow
1977: No award given[8]
A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean
Roots by Alex Haley (special Pulitzer Prize)
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1.8 1980s
Entries from this point on include the nalists listed after
the winner for each year.
1980: The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer
Birdy by William Wharton
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy
Toole (posthumous win)
Godric by Frederick Buechner
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William
Maxwell
1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne
Tyler
Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
The Feud by Thomas Berger
1985: Foreign Aairs by Alison Lurie
I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O'Hehir
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
Paradise by Donald Barthelme
1.10 2000s
Whites by Norman Rush
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
That Night by Alice McDermott
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
1.9 1990s
1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by
Oscar Hijuelos
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Jernigan by David Gates
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pir-
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Mao II by Don DeLillo
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by
Robert Olen Butler
At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price by
Reynolds Price
Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip
Roth
1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley by Grace
Paley
What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
Mr. Ives Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
Sabbaths Theater by Philip Roth
1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American
Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
The Manikin by Joanna Scott
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula
K. Le Guin
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert
Stone
Underworld by Don DeLillo
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1.10 2000s
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie
Proulx
Waiting by Ha Jin
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
2003: Middlesex by Jerey Eugenides
Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
American Woman by Susan Choi
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wig-
gins
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
An Unnished Season by Ward Just
War Trash by Ha Jin
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
The March by E. L. Doctorow
2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
After This by Alice McDermott
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by
Junot Daz
Shakespeares Kitchen by Lore Segal
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
All Souls by Christine Schutt
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
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1.11 2010s
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal
Mueenuddin
Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer
Egan
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
2012: No award given.[9]
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
(posthumous nominee)
2013: The Orphan Masters Son by Adam Johnson
What We Talk About When We Talk About
Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
2014: The Goldnch by Donna Tartt
The Son by Philipp Meyer
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Sha-
cochis
2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Do-
err
Let Me Be Frank with You by Richard Ford
The Moors Account by Laila Lalami
Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen[10]
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Mauds Line by Margaret Verble
2 Repeat winners
Three writers to date have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fic-
tion multiple times, one nominally in the novel category
and two in the general ction category. Ernest Heming-
way was selected by the 1941 and 1953 juries, but the
former was overturned and no 1941 award was given.[4]
Booth Tarkington, 1919, 1922
William Faulkner, 1955, 1963 (awarded posthu-
mously)
John Updike, 1982, 1991
EXTERNAL LINKS
3 References
[1] 1917 Winners. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-
12-19.
[2] Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The Pulitzer Prizes
(pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2008-08-19.
[3] Among the titles the ction jury considered this year was
Joseph Hergesheimer's Java Head. However, one juror
strongly objected to the novel, arguing that it was not
wholesome enough for Pulitzer distinction. Fischer,
Heinz Dietrich, and Erika J. Fischer. Chronicle of the
Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction: Discussions, Decisions and Doc-
uments, Munich, K. G. Saur, 2007. 4.
[4] The ction jury had recommended the 1941 award go to
Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Although
the Pulitzer Board initially agreed with that judgment, the
president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray But-
ler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because
he deemed the novel oensive, and no award was given
that year. McDowell, Edwin. Publishing: Pulitzer Con-
troversies. New York Times 11 May 1984: C26.
[5] The ction jury had recommended the 1957 award to
Elizabeth Spencer's The Voice at the Back Door, but the
Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding
the prize, made no award. Source: McDowell, Ed-
win. Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies. The New York
Times, 11 May 1984: C26.
[6] The three novels the Pulitzer committee put forth for con-
sideration to the Pulitzer board were: Losing Battles by
Eudora Welty; Mr. Sammlers Planet by Saul Bellow; and
The Wheel of Love by Joyce Carol Oates. The board re-
jected all three and opted for no award. Source: Fischer,
Heinz-Dietrich. The Pulitzer Prize Archive, Volume 10,
Novel/Fiction Awards 1917-1994. Munich: K.G. Saur,
1994. LX-LXI.
[7] The ction jury had unanimously recommended the 1974
award to Thomas Pynchon's Gravitys Rainbow, but the
Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding
the prize, made no award. Source: McDowell, Ed-
win. Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies. The New York
Times, 11 May 1984: C26.
[8] The ction jury had recommended the 1977 award to
Norman MacLean's A River Runs Through It, but the
Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the
prize, made no award. That same year, however, Alex
Haley's iconic family saga Roots was awarded a special
Pulitzer Prize. Source: McDowell, Edwin. Publishing:
Pulitzer Controversies. The New York Times, 11 May
1984: C26.
[9] The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction, The Pulitzer
Prizes ocial website. Accessed Dec. 8, 2015.
[10] http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/viet-thanh-nguyen
4 External links
The Pulitzer Prize Thumbnails Project
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Michaels Cunningams Letter from the Pulitzer

Fiction Jury: What Really Happened This Year,
The New Yorker Part One (July 9, 2012) and Part
Two (July 10, 2012)
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