Pulitzer Award Winners
The Pulitzer Awards were established by Joseph Pulitzer in 1917 and are currently administered by Columbia University. They honour achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. Included in this list are individual winners in any of the award's 21 categories.
| Name | Year | Work | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest Poole | 1918 | His Family |  | |
| Edith Wharton | 1921 | The Age of Innocence | | |
| Booth Tarkington | 1922 | Alice Adams | | |
| Willa Cather | 1923 | One of Ours | | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1923 | | ||
| Margaret Wilson | 1924 | The Able McLaughlins | | |
| Edna Ferber | 1925 | So Big | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1926 | Arrowsmith | | |
| Louis Bromfield | 1927 | Early Autumn | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1928 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | | |
| Julia Peterkin | 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary | | |
| Oliver La Farge | 1930 | Laughing Boy | | |
| Margaret Ayer Barnes | 1931 | Years of Grace | | |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1932 | The Good Earth | | |
| Thomas Sigismund Stribling | 1933 | The Store | | |
| Caroline Miller | 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom | | |
| Josephine Johnson | 1935 | Now in November | | |
| Harold L. Davis | 1936 | Honey in the Horn | | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1937 | Gone with the Wind | | |
| John Phillips Marquand | 1938 | The Late George Apley | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1938 | Our Town | | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1939 | The Yearling | | |
| John Steinbeck | 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | | |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1942 | In This Our Life | | |
| Upton Sinclair | 1943 | Dragon's Teeth | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth | | |
| Martin Flavin | 1944 | Journey in the Dark | | |
| John Hersey | 1945 | A Bell for Adano | | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1947 | All the King's Men | | |
| James A. Michener | 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1948 | A Streetcar Named Desire | | |
| James Gould Cozzens | 1949 | Guard of Honor | | |
| Arthur Miller | 1949 | Death of a Salesman | | |
| A. B. Guthrie Jr. | 1950 | The Way West | | |
| Conrad Richter | 1951 | The Town | | |
| Herman Wouk | 1952 | The Caine Mutiny | | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea | | |
| William Faulkner | 1954 | A Fable | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1955 | Cat on A Hot Tin Roof | | |
| MacKinlay Kantor | 1956 | Andersonville | | |
| James Agee | 1958 | A Death in the Family | | |
| Robert Lewis Taylor | 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | | |
| Allen Drury | 1960 | Advise and Consent | | |
| Harper Lee | 1961 | To Kill a Mockingbird | | |
| Edwin O'Connor | 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | | |
| William Faulkner | 1963 | The Reivers | | |
| Shirley Ann Grau | 1965 | The Keepers of the House | | |
| Katherine Anne Porter | 1966 | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | | |
| Bernard Malamud | 1967 | The Fixer | | |
| William Styron | 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1969 | House Made of Dawn | | |
| Jean Stafford | 1970 | Stories of Jean Stafford | | |
| Wallace Stegner | 1972 | Angle of Repose | | |
| Eudora Welty | 1973 | The Optimist's Daughter | | |
| Michael Shaara | 1975 | The Killer Angels | | |
| Saul Bellow | 1976 | Humboldt's Gift | | |
| James Alan McPherson | 1978 | Elbow Room | | |
| John Cheever | 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever | | |
| Sam Shepard | 1979 | Buried Child | (Rogers) | |
| Norman Mailer | 1980 | The Executioner's Song | | |
| Philip Roth | 1980 | The Ghost Writer | | |
| William Wharton | 1980 | Birdy | (Du Aime) | |
| Frederick Buechner | 1981 | Godric | | |
| William Maxwell | 1981 | So Long, See You Tomorrow | | |
| John Kennedy Toole | 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces | | |
| Marilynne Robinson | 1982 | Housekeeping | (Summers) | |
| Robert Stone | 1982 | A Flag for Sunrise | | |
| John Updike | 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich | | |
| Chaim Grade | 1983 | Rabbis and Wives | | |
| Anne Tyler | 1983 | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | | |
| Alice Walker | 1983 | The Color Purple | | |
| Thomas Berger | 1984 | The Feud | | |
| Raymond Carver | 1984 | Cathedral | | |
| William Kennedy | 1984 | Ironweed | | |
| Alison Lurie | 1985 | Foreign Affairs | | |
| Diana O'Hehir | 1985 | I Wish This War Were Over | | |
| Douglas Unger | 1985 | Leaving the Land | | |
| Russell Banks | 1986 | Continental Drift | | |
| Larry McMurtry | 1986 | Lonesome Dove | | |
| Anne Tyler | 1986 | The Accidental Tourist | | |
| Donald Barthelme | 1987 | Paradise | | |
| Norman Rush | 1987 | Whites | | |
| Peter Taylor | 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | | |
| Diane Johnson | 1988 | Persian Nights | | |
| Alice McDermott | 1988 | That Night | | |
| Toni Morrison | 1988 | Beloved | (Wofford) | |
| Raymond Carver | 1989 | Where I'm Calling From | | |
| Anne Tyler | 1989 | Breathing Lessons | | |
| E. L. Doctorow | 1990 | Billy Bathgate | | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | | |
| Linda K. Hogan | 1991 | Mean Spirit | | |
| Tim O'Brien | 1991 | The Things They Carried | | |
| John Updike | 1991 | Rabbit at Rest | | |
| Don DeLillo | 1992 | Mao II | | |
| David Gates | 1992 | Jernigan | | |
| Robert M. Pirsig | 1992 | Lila: An Inquiry into Morals | | |
| Jane Smiley | 1992 | A Thousand Acres | | |
| Robert Olen Butler | 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | | |
| Alice McDermott | 1993 | At Weddings and Wakes | | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1993 | Black Water | | |
| Reynolds Price | 1994 | The Collected Stories | | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 1994 | The Shipping News | | |
| Philip Roth | 1994 | Operation Shylock: A Confession | | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1995 | What I Lived For by | | |
| Grace Paley | 1995 | The Collected Stories | | |
| Carol Shields | 1995 | The Stone Diaries | | |
| Richard Ford | 1996 | Sabbath's Theater | | |
| Richard Ford | 1996 | Independence Day | | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1996 | Mr. Ives' Christmas | | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1997 | Unlocking the Air and Other Stories | (Kroeber) | |
| Steven Millhauser | 1997 | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer | | |
| Joanna Scott | 1997 | The Manikin | | |
| Don DeLillo | 1998 | Underworld | | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1998 | Bear and His Daughter: Stories | (Kroeber) | |
| Philip Roth | 1998 | American Pastoral | | |
| Russell Banks | 1999 | Cloudsplitter | | |
| Michael Cunningham | 1999 | The Hours | | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | 1999 | The Poisonwood Bible | | |
| Ha Jin | 2000 | Waiting | | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies | | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 2000 | Close Range: Wyoming Stories | | |
| Michael Chabon | 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 2001 | Blonde | | |
| Joy Williams | 2001 | The Quick and the Dead | | |
| Jonathan Franzen | 2002 | The Corrections | | |
| Richard Russo | 2002 | Empire Falls | | |
| Colson Whitehead | 2002 | John Henry Days | | |
| Andrea Barrett | 2003 | Servants of the Map: Stories | | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 2003 | Middlesex | | |
| Adam Haslett | 2003 | You Are Not a Stranger Here | | |
| Susan Choi | 2004 | American Woman | | |
| Edward P. Jones | 2004 | The Known World | | |
| Marianne Wiggins | 2004 | Evidence of Things Unseen | | |
| Ha Jin | 2005 | War Trash | | |
| Ward Just | 2005 | An Unfinished Season | | |
| Marianne Wiggins | 2005 | Gilead | | |
| Geraldine Brooks | 2006 | March | | |
| E. L. Doctorow | 2006 | The March | | |
| Lee Martin | 2006 | The Bright Forever | | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 2007 | The Road | | |
| Alice McDermott | 2007 | After This | | |
| Richard Powers | 2007 | The Echo Maker | | |
| Junot Díaz | 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | | |
| Denis Johnson | 2008 | Tree of Smoke | | |
| Lore Segal | 2008 | Shakespeare's Kitchen | | |
| Louise Erdrich | 2009 | The Plague of Doves | | |
| Christine Schutt | 2009 | All Souls | | |
| Elizabeth Strout | 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | | |
| Paul Harding | 2010 | Tinkers | | |
| Lydia Millet | 2010 | Love in Infant Monkeys | | |
| Daniyal Mueenuddin | 2010 | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | | |
| Jonathan Dee | 2011 | The Privileges | | |
| Jennifer Egan | 2011 | A Visit From the Goon Squad | | |
| Chang-rae Lee | 2011 | The Surrendered | | |
| Denis Johnson | 2012 | Train Dreams | | |
| Karen Russell | 2012 | Swamplandia! | | |
| David Foster Wallace | 2012 | The Pale King | |