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 | The Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes were established in 1917 with an endowment from Joseph Pulitzer, an American newspaper publisher, to Columbia University to recognize significant achievements in journalism, letters, drama, and music. Prizes in letters are awarded in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, history, poetry, and biography/autobiography, and include a $5,000 cash award. Pulitzer Prize website |
 Fiction2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1997 Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson 1977 No Award 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 1974 No Award 1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 1971 No Award 1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford 1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter 1965 The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau 1964 No Award 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor 1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee 1957 No Award 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner 1954 No Award 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter 1950 The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Nonfiction2009 Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander 2007 The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright 2006 Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins 2005 Ghost Wars by Steve Coll 2004 Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum 2003 A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power 2002 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter 2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix 2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower 1999 Annals of the Former World by John McPhee 1998 Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond 1997 Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger 1996 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism by Tina Rosenberg 1995 The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner 1994 Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick 1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills 1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin 1991 The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson 1990 And Their Children after Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson 1989 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan 1988 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 1987 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler 1986 Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas 1985 The Good War by Studs Terkel 1984 The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr 1983 Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan 1982 The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 1981 Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske 1980 Godel, Escher, Baeh: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 1979 On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson 1978 The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan 1977 Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner 1976 Why Survive? Being Old in America by Robert N. Butler 1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard 1974 The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker 1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald 1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchm 1971 The Rising Sun by John Toland 1970 Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson 1969 The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer 1968 Rousseau and Revolution, The Tenth and Concluding Volume of the Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant 1967 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis 1966 Wandering through Winter by Edwin Way Teale 1965 O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones 1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter 1963 The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman 1962 The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore H. White 2009 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham 2009 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed 2009 The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin 2008 Time and Materials by Robert Hass 2007 Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey 2006 Late Wife by Claudia Emerson 2005 Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser 2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright 2003 Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon 2002 Practical Gods by Carl Dennis 2001 Different Hours by Stephen Dunn 2000 Repair by C.K. Williams 1999 Blizzard of One by Mark Strand 1998 Black Zodiac by Charles Wright 1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller 1996 The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham 1995 The Simple Truth by Philip Levine 1994 Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa 1993 The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck 1992 Selected Poems by James Tate 1991 Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn 1990 The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic 1989 New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur 1988 Partial Accounts by William Meredith 1987 Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove 1986 The Flying Change by Henry Taylor 1985 Yin by Carolyn Kizer 1984 American Primitive by Mary Oliver 1983 Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell 1982 The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath 1981 The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler 1980 Selected Poems by Donald Justice 1979 Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren 1978 Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov 1977 Divine Comedies by James Merrill 1976 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery 1975 Turtle Island by Gary Snyder 1974 The Dolphin by Robert Lowell 1973 Up Country by Maxine Kumin 1972 Collected Poems by James Wright 1971 The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin 1970 Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard 1969 Of Being Numerous by George Oppen 1968 The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht 1967 Live or Die by Anne Sexton 1966 Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart 1965 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman 1964 At the End of the Open Road by Louis Simpson 1963 Pictures from Breughel by William Carlos Williams 1962 Poems by Alan Dugan 1961 Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley 1960 Heart's Needle by W.D. Snodgrass 1959 Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz 1958 Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren 1957 Things of This World by Richard Wilbur 1956 Poems--North & South by Elizabeth Bishop 1955 Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens 1954 The Waking by Theodore Roethke 1953 Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish 1952 Collected Poems by Marianne Moore 1951 Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg 1950 Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks A | |