Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Less

Andrew Sean Greer

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

The Orphan Master’s Son

Adam Johnson

No award given.

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

Tinkers

Paul Harding

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

March

Geraldine Brooks

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

The Tale of an American Dreamer

Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler

Independence Day

Richard Ford

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

The Shipping News

E. Annie Proulx

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Oscar Hijuelos

Breathing Lessons

Anne Tyler

Beloved

Toni Morrison

A Summons to Memphis

Peter Taylor

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie

Ironweed

William Kennedy

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Rabbit is Rich

John Updike

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

The Executioner’s Song

Norman Mailer

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

Elbow Room

James Alan McPherson

No award given

Humboldt’s Gift

Saul Bellow

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

No award given

The Optimist’s Daughter

Eudora Welty

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

No award given

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter

The Keepers of the House

Shirley Ann Grau

No award given

The Reivers

William Faulkner (posthumous win)

The Edge of Sadness

Edwin O’Connor

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Advise and Consent

Allen Drury

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Robert Lewis Taylor

A Death in the Family

James Agee

No award given

Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor

A Fable

William Faulkner

No award given

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk

The Town

Conrad Richter

The Way West

A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

Guard of Honor

James Gould Cozzens

Tales of the South Pacific

James A. Michener

All the King’s Men

Robert Penn Warren

No award given

A Bell for Adano

John Hersey

Journey in the Dark

Martin Flavin

Dragon’s Teeth

Upton Sinclair

In This Our Life

Ellen Glasgow

No award given

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Late George Apley

John Phillips Marquand

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Honey in the Horn

Harold L. Davis

Now in November

Josephine Winslow Johnson

Lamb in His Bosom

Caroline Miller

The Store

Thomas Sigismund Stribling

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes

Laughing Boy

Oliver La Farge

Scarlet Sister Mary

Julia Peterkin

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

Early Autumn

Louis Bromfield

Arrowsmith

Sinclair Lewis (declined prize)

So Big

Edna Ferber

The Able McLaughlins

Margaret Wilson

One of Ours

Willa Cather

Alice Adams

Booth Tarkington

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

No award given

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

His Family

Ernest Poole