Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Winners)

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Finalists have been announced since 1980. The Novel category was re-named Fiction in 1947.

1. Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   "2009 Winner
   
   A collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine that packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating."
   
   


2. The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao By Junot Diaz
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   "2008 Winner"
   
   


3. The Road By Cormac Mccarthy
   
   
   (literature and fiction, sci-fi)
   
   "2007 Winner"
   
   


4. March By Geraldine Brooks
   
   
   (literature and fiction, romance)
   
   "2006 Winner"
   
   


5. Gilead By Marilynne Robinson
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   "2005 Winner"
   
   


6. The Known World By Edward P. Jones
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   "2004 Winner"
   
   


7. Middlesex By Jeffrey Eugenides
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   "2003 Winner"
   
   


8. Empire Falls By Richard Russo
   
   
   (literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
   
   "2002 Winner"
   
   


9. The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay By Michael Chabon
   
   
   (literature and fiction)
   
   "2001 Winner"
   
   


10. Interpreter Of Maladies By Jhumpa Lahiri
    
    
    (literature and fiction, fantasy)
    
    "2000 Winner"
    
    


11. The Hours By Michael Cunningham
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1999 Winner"
    
    


12. American Pastoral By Philip Roth
    
    
    (literature and fiction, nonfiction)
    
    "1998 Winner"
    
    


13. Martin Dressler: The Tale Of An American Dreamer By Steven Millhauser
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1997 Winner"
    
    


14. Independence Day By Richard Ford
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1996 Winner"
    
    


15. The Stone Diaries By Carol Shields
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1995 Winner"
    
    


16. The Shipping News By E. Annie Proulx
    
    
    (literature and fiction, girl fiction)
    
    "1994 Winner"
    
    


17. A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain By Robert Olen Butler
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1993 Winner"
    
    


18. A Thousand Acres By Jane Smiley
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1992 Winner"
    
    


19. Rabbit At Rest By John Updike
    
    
    (literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers)
    
    "1991 Winner"
    
    


20. The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love By Oscar Hijuelos
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1990 Winner"
    
    


21. Breathing Lessons By Anne Tyler
    
    
    (literature and fiction, romance)
    
    "1989 Winner"
    
    


22. Beloved By Toni Morrison
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1988 Winner"
    
    


23. A Summons To Memphis By Peter Taylor
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1987 Winner"
    
    


24. Lonesome Dove By Larry Mcmurtry
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1986 Winner"
    
    


25. Foreign Affairs By Alison Lurie
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1985 Winner"
    
    


26. Ironweed By William Kennedy
    
    
    (girl fiction, literature and fiction)
    
    "1984 Winner"
    
    


27. The Color Purple By Alice Walker
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1983 Winner"
    
    


28. Rabbit Is Rich By John Updike
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1982 Winner"
    
    


29. A Confederacy Of Dunces By John Kennedy Toole
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1981 Winner"
    
    


30. The Executioner's Song By Norman Mailer
    
    
    (literature and fiction, nonfiction)
    
    "1980 Winner"
    
    


31. The Stories Of John Cheever By John Cheever
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1979 Winner"
    
    


32. Elbow Room By James Alan Mcpherson
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1978 Winner"
    
    


33. Humboldt's Gift By Saul Bellow
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1976 Winner"
    
    


34. The Killer Angels By Michael Shaara
    
    
    (history, literature and fiction)
    
    "1975 Winner"
    
    


35. The Optimist's Daughter By Eudora Welty
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1973 Winner"
    
    


36. Angle Of Repose By Wallace Stegner
    
    
    (classics, literature and fiction)
    
    "1972 Winner"
    
    


37. Collected Stories By Jean Stafford
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1970 Winner"
    
    


38. House Made Of Dawn By N. Scott Momaday
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1969 Winner"
    
    


39. The Confessions Of Nat Turner By William Styron
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1968 Winner"
    
    


40. The Fixer By Bernard Malamud
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1967 Winner"
    
    


41. Collected Stories By Katherine Anne Porter
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1966 Winner"
    
    


42. The Keepers Of The House By Shirley Ann Grau
    
    
    (classics, literature and fiction)
    
    "1965 Winner"
    
    


43. The Reivers By William Faulkner
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1963 Winner"
    
    


44. The Edge Of Sadness By Edwin O'connor
    
    
    (literature and fiction, religion and spirituality)
    
    "1962 Winner"
    
    


45. To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics, mystery and thrillers)
    
    "1961 Winner"
    
    


46. Advise And Consent By Allen Drury
    
    
    (business books, children books, IT books, food and cooking, health, history, literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers, nonfiction, parenting, religion and spirituality, romance, science, teens)
    
    "1960 Winner"
    
    


47. The Travels Of Jaimie Mcpheeters By Robert Lewis Taylor
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1959 Winner"
    
    


48. A Death In The Family By James Agee
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1958 Winner"
    
    


49. Andersonville By Mackinlay Kantor
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1956 Winner"
    
    


50. A Fable By William Faulkner
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1955 Winner"
    
    


51. The Old Man And The Sea By Ernest Hemingway
    
    
    (literature and fiction, classics)
    
    "1953 Winner"
    
    


52. The Caine Mutiny By Herman Wouk
    
    
    (history, literature and fiction)
    
    "1952 Winner"
    
    


53. The Town By Conrad Richter
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1951 Winner"
    
    


54. The Way West By A. B. Guthrie
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1950 Winner"
    
    


55. Guard Of Honor By James Gould Cozzens
    
    
    (history, classics, literature and fiction)
    
    "1949 Winner"
    
    


56. Tales Of The South Pacific By James A. Michener
    
    
    (literature and fiction)
    
    "1948 Winner"
    
    


Source:
http://www.pulitzer.org

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