Pulitzer Award Winners
The Pulitzer Awards were established by Joseph Pulitzer in 1917 and are currently administered by Columbia University. They honour American achievements in print and online journalism, literature and musical composition. Included in this list are individual winners in any of the award's 23 categories.
| Name | Year | Work | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Agee | 1958 | A Death in the Family |  | |
| Conrad Aiken | 1930 | Selected Poems | | |
| Zoe Akins | 1935 | The Old Maid | | |
| Margaret Ayer Barnes | 1931 | Years of Grace | | |
| Saul Bellow | 1976 | Humboldt's Gift | | |
| Louis Bromfield | 1927 | Early Autumn | | |
| Geraldine Brooks | 2006 | March | | |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1932 | The Good Earth | | |
| Robert Olen Butler | 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | | |
| Willa Cather | 1923 | One of Ours | | |
| Michael Chabon | 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | | |
| John Cheever | 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever | | |
| James Gould Cozzens | 1949 | Guard of Honor | | |
| Michael Cunningham | 1999 | The Hours | | |
| Harold L. Davis | 1936 | Honey in the Horn | | |
| Junot Díaz | 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | | |
| George Dillon | 1932 | The Flowering Stone | | |
| Allen Drury | 1960 | Advise and Consent | | |
| Jennifer Egan | 2011 | A Visit From the Goon Squad | | |
| Louise Erdrich | 2021 | The Night Watchman | | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 2003 | Middlesex | | |
| William Faulkner | 1954 | A Fable | | |
| William Faulkner | 1963 | The Reivers | | |
| Edna Ferber | 1925 | So Big | | |
| Martin Flavin | 1944 | Journey in the Dark | | |
| Richard Ford | 1996 | Independence Day | | |
| Elizabeth Frank | 1986 | Louise Bogan: A Portrait | | |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1942 | In This Our Life | | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1931 | Alison's House | | |
| Shirley Ann Grau | 1965 | The Keepers of the House | | |
| A. B. Guthrie Jr. | 1950 | The Way West | | |
| Paul Harding | 2010 | Tinkers | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea | | |
| John Hersey | 1945 | A Bell for Adano | | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | | |
| Josephine Johnson | 1935 | Now in November | | |
| Edward P. Jones | 2004 | The Known World | | |
| MacKinlay Kantor | 1956 | Andersonville | | |
| William Kennedy | 1984 | Ironweed | | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | 2023 | Demon Copperhead | | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1939 | The Yearling | | |
| Oliver La Farge | 1930 | Laughing Boy | | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies | | |
| Harper Lee | 1961 | To Kill a Mockingbird | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1926 | Arrowsmith | | |
| Amy Lowell | 1926 | What's O'Clock | | |
| Alison Lurie | 1985 | Foreign Affairs | | |
| Norman Mailer | 1980 | The Executioner's Song | | |
| Bernard Malamud | 1967 | The Fixer | | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 2007 | The Road | | |
| Phyllis McGinley | 1961 | Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades | | |
| Larry McMurtry | 1986 | Lonesome Dove | | |
| James Alan McPherson | 1978 | Elbow Room | | |
| James A. Michener | 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1923 | The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver | (Boyd) | |
| Arthur Miller | 1949 | Death of a Salesman | | |
| Caroline Miller | 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom | | |
| Steven Millhauser | 1997 | Martin Dressler | | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1937 | Gone with the Wind | | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1969 | House Made of Dawn | | |
| Marianne Moore | 1951 | Collected Poems | | |
| Toni Morrison | 1988 | Beloved | (Wofford) | |
| Edwin O'Connor | 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | | |
| Mary Oliver | 1984 | American Primitive | | |
| Julia Peterkin | 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary | | |
| John Phillips Marquand | 1938 | The Late George Apley | | |
| Ernest Poole | 1918 | His Family | | |
| Katherine Anne Porter | 1966 | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | | |
| Richard Powers | 2019 | The Overstory | | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 1994 | The Shipping News | | |
| Conrad Richter | 1951 | The Town | | |
| Marilynne Robinson | 2005 | Gilead | (Summers) | |
| Theodore Roethke | 1954 | The Waking | | |
| Philip Roth | 1998 | American Pastoral | | |
| Richard Russo | 2002 | Empire Falls | | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1940 | Abraham Lincoln: The War Years | (Sandberg) | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1951 | Complete Poems | (Sandberg) | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1919 | Cornhuskers | (Sandberg) | |
| Anne Sexton | 1967 | Live or Die | (Harvey) | |
| Michael Shaara | 1975 | The Killer Angels | | |
| Sam Shepard | 1979 | Buried Child | | |
| Carol Shields | 1995 | The Stone Diaries | | |
| Upton Sinclair | 1943 | Dragon's Teeth | | |
| Jane Smiley | 1992 | A Thousand Acres | | |
| Jean Stafford | 1970 | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford | | |
| Wallace Stegner | 1972 | Angle of Repose | | |
| John Steinbeck | 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | | |
| Wallace Stevens | 1955 | Collected Poems | | |
| T. S. Stribling | 1933 | The Store | | |
| Elizabeth Strout | 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | | |
| William Styron | 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | | |
| Booth Tarkington | 1922 | Alice Adams | | |
| Peter Taylor | 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | | |
| Robert Lewis Taylor | 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | | |
| Sara Teasdale | 1918 | Love Songs | (Filsinger) | |
| John Kennedy Toole | 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces | | |
| Anne Tyler | 1989 | Breathing Lessons | | |
| John Updike | 1991 | Rabbit at Rest | | |
| John Updike | 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich | | |
| Alice Walker | 1983 | The Color Purple | | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1947 | All the King's Men | | |
| Eudora Welty | 1973 | The Optimist's Daughter | | |
| Edith Wharton | 1921 | The Age of Innocence | | |
| Colson Whitehead | 2020 | The Nickel Boys | | |
| Colson Whitehead | 2017 | The Underground Railroad | | |
| Margaret Widdemer | 1919 | The Old Road to Paradise | | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1989 | New and Collected Poems | | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1957 | Things of This World | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1938 | Our Town | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1928 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1948 | A Streetcar Named Desire | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1955 | Cat on A Hot Tin Roof | | |
| Margaret Wilson | 1924 | The Able McLaughlins | | |
| Herman Wouk | 1952 | The Caine Mutiny | |