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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York
Globe, established the Pulitzer Prize through an endowment to
Columbia University. The Literature Award is given annually
for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably
dealing with American life. Go to the Pulitzer
Prizes site.
1918: Ernest Poole, His Family
1919: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
1920: No award
1921: Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
1922: Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams
1923: Willa Cather, One of Ours
1924: Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins
1925: Edna Ferber, So Big
1926: Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
1927: Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn
1928: Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1929: Julia Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary
1930: Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy
1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace
1932: Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
1933: T. S. Stribling, The Store
1934: Caroline Miller, Lamb in his Bosom
1935: Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November
1936: Harold Davis, Honey in the Horn
1937: Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
1938: John Phillips Marquand, The Late George Apley
1939: Marjorie Kinnan, Rawlings The Yearling
1940: John Steinbeck ,The Grapes of Wrath
1941: No award
1942: Ellen Glasgow, In this Our Life
1943: Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth
1944: Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
1945: John Hersey, A Bell for Adano
1946: No award
1947: Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
1948: James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific
1949: James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
1950: A.B. Guthrie, The Way West
1951: Conrad Richter, The Town
1952: Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
1953: Ernest Hemingway ,The Old Man and the Sea
1954: No award
1955: William Faulkner, A Fable
1956: Mackinlay Kantor, Andersonville
1957: No award
1958: James Agee, A Death in the Family
1959: Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jamie
McPheeters
1960: Allen Drury, Advise and Consent
1961: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
1962: Edwin O'Connor, The Edge of Sadness
1963: William Faulkner, The Reivers
1964: No award
1965: Shirley Anne Grau, The Keepers of the House
1966: Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories of
Katherine Anne Porter
1967: Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
1968: William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
1969: N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
1970: Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
1971: No award
1972: Wallace Stegner, The Angle of Repose
1973: Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
1974: No award
1975: Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
1976: Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
1977: No award
1978: James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
1979: John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
1980: Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
1981: John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
1982: John Updike, Rabbit is Rich
1983: Alice Walker, The Color Purple
1984: William Kennedy, Ironweed
1985: Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
1986: Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
1987: Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
1988: Toni Morrison, Beloved
1989: Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons
1990: Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1991: John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
1992: Jane Smiley, Thousand Acres
1993: Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange
Mountain
1994: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
1995: Carol Shields, Stone Diaries
1996: Richard Ford, Independence Day
1997: Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an
American Dreamer
1998: Philip Roth, American Pastoral
1999: Michael Cunningham, The Hours
2000: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies2001: Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier & Clay
2002: Richard Russo, Empire Falls
2003: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
2004: Edward P. Jones, The Known World
2005: Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2006: March by
Geraldine Brooks
2007: The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
2008: The
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
2009: Olive
Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York
Globe, established the Pulitzer Prize through an endowment to
Columbia University. Go to the Pulitzer
Prizes site.
1917: Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by
Florence Howe Hall,
Julia Ward Howe
1918: William Cabell Bruce, Benjamin Franklin,
Self-Revealed
1919: Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
1920: Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall, 4
vols.
1921: Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok
1922: Hamlin Garland, A Daughter of the Middle Border
1923: Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter
H. Page
1924: Michael Idvorsky Pupin, From Immigrant to Inventor
1925: M. A. Dewolfe Howe, Barrett Wendell and His Letters
1926: Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler, 2
vols.
1927: Emory Holloway, Whitman
1928: Charles Edward Russell, The American Orchestra and
Theodore Thomas
1929: Burton J. Hendrick, The Training of an American,
The Earlier Life and Letters
of Walter H. Page
1930: Marquis James, The Raven
1931: Henry James, Charles W. Eliot
1932: Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt
1933: Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland
1934: Tyler Dennett, John Hay
1935: Douglas S. Freeman, R. E. Lee
1936: Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of
William James
1937: Allan Nevins, Hamilton Fish
1938: Odell Shepard, Pedlar's Progress
1938: Marquis James, Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.
1939: Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin
1940: Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson, Life and
Letters. Vols. VII and VIII
1941: Ola Elizabeth Winslow, Jonathan Edward
1942: Forrest Wilson, Crusader in Crinoline
1943: Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea
1944: Carleton Mabee, The American Leonardo: The Life of
Samuel F B. Morse
1945: Russell Blaine Nye, George Bancroft: Brahmin, Rebel
1946: Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness
1947: William Allen White, The Autobiography of William
Allen White
1948: Margaret Clapp, Forgotten First Citizen: John
Bigelow
1949: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins
1950: Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the
Foundations of American
Foreign Policy
1951: Margaret Louise Coit, John C. Calhoun: American,
Portrait
1952: Merlo J. Pusey, Charles Evans Hughes
1953: David J. Mays, Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803
1954: Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis
1955: William S. White, The Taft Story
1956: Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe
1957: John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
1958: Volumes I-VI, by Douglas Southall Freeman, and Volume
VII, written by John
Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth
after Dr. Freeman's Death in
1953, George Washington
1959: Arthur Walworth, Woodrow Wilson. American Prophet.
1960: Samuel Eliot Morison, John Paul Jones
1961: David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the
Civil War
1962: No Award
1963: Leon Edel, Henry James
1964: Walter Jackson Bate, John Keats
1965: Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams, three volumes
1966: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr, A Thousand Days
1967: Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
1968: George E. Kennan, Memoirs
1969: Benjamin Lawrence Reid, The Man From New York: John
Quinn and His
Friends
1970: T. Harry Williams, Huey Long
1971: Lawrance Thompson, Robert Frost: The Years of
Triumph, 1915 -1938
1972: Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin
1973: W. A. Swanberg, Luce and His Empire
1974: Louis Sheaffer, O'Neill, Son and Artist
1975: Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the
Fall of New York
1976: R. W. B. Lewis, Edith Wharton: A Biography
1977: John E. Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of
T E. Lawrence
1978: Walter Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson
1979: Leonard Baker, Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck
and the Berlin Jews
1980: Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
1981: Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great: His Life and
World
1982: William McFeely, Grant: A Biography
1983: Russell Baker, Growing Up
1984: Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington
1985: Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton
Mather
1986: Elizabeth Frank, Louise Bogan: A Portrait
1987: David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross
1988: David Herbert Donald, Look Homeward: A Life of
Thomas Wolfe
1989: the late Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde
1990: Sebastian De Grazia, Maehiavelli in Hell
1991: Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Jackson
Pollock
1992: Lewis B. Puller, Jr., Fortunate
Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
1993: David McCullough, Truman
1994: David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois:
Biography of a Race 1868-1919
1995: Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
1996: Jack Miles, God: A Biography
1997: Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
1998: Katharine Graham, Personal History
1999: A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh
2000: Stacy Schiff, Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
2001: David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du
Bois: The Fight for Equality and the
American Century,
1919-1963
2002: David McCullough, John Adams
2003: Master of the Senate, Robert A. Caro
2004: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, William Taubman
2005: de Kooning: An American Master, Mark Stevens
and Annalyn Swan
2006: American Prometheus:
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai
Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2007: The Most Famous Man in America:
The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby
Applegate
2008: Eden's Outcasts: The Story
of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John
Matteson
2009: Andrew Jackson in the
White House by Jon Meacham
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The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York
Globe, established the Pulitzer Prize through an endowment to
Columbia University. Go to the Pulitzer
Prizes site.
1962: Theodore H. White, The Making Of The President 1960
1963: Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns Of August
1964 : Richard Hofstadter, Anti- Intellectualism In
American Life
1965: Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World
1966: Edwin Way Teale, Wandering Through Winter
1967: David Brion Davis, The Problem Of Slavery In
Western Culture
1968: Will And Ariel Durant, Rousseau And Revolution, The
Tenth And
Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization
1969: Rene Jules Dubos, So Human An Animal
1969: Norman Mailer, The Armies Of The Night
1970: Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth
1971: John Toland, The Rising Sun
1972: Barbara W. Tuchm, Stilwell And The American
Experience In China,1911-1945
1973: Robert Coles, Children Of Crisis. Vols. II And III
1973: Frances Fitzgerald, Fire In The Lake: The
Vietnamese And The Americans In Vietnam
1974: The Late Ernest Becker, The Denial Of Death
1975: Annie Dillard, Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
1976: Robert N. Butler, Why Survive? Being Old In America
1977: William W. Warner, Beautiful Swimmers
1978: Carl Sagan, The Dragons Of Eden
1979: Edward O. Wilson, On Human Nature
1980: Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Baeh: An
Eternal Golden Braid
1981: Carl E. Schorske, Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics
And Culture
1982: Tracy Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine
1983: Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place On Earth For Me?
1984: Paul Starr, The Social Transformation Of American
Medicine
1985: Studs Terkel, The Good War
1986: Joseph Lelyveld, Move Your Shadow
1986: J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground
1987: David K Shipler, Arab And Jew
1988: Richard Rhodes, The Making Of The Atomic Bomb
1989: Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie
1990: Dale Maharidge And Michael Williamson, And Their
Children After Them
1991: Bert Holldobler And Edward O. Wilson, The Ants
1992: Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil,
Money & Power
1993: Garry Wills, Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That
Remade America
1994: David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The
Soviet Empire
1995: Jonathan Weiner, The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of
Evolution In Our Time
1996: Tina Rosenberg, The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's
Ghosts After
Communism
1997: Richard Kluger, Ashes To Ashes: America's
Hundred-Year Cigarette War,
The Public Health, And The Unabashed
Triumph Of Philip Morris
1998: Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
1999: John McPhee, Annals of the Former World
2000: John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake
of World War II
2001: Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of
Modern Japan
2002: Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham,
Alabama, the Climactic Battle
of the Civil Rights
Revolution
2003: "A Problem From Hell": America and the Age
of Genocide, Samantha Power
2004: Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum
2005: Ghost Wars, Steve Coll
2006: Imperial Reckoning: Untold
Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline
Elkins
Polio:
An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda
and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
The
Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the
Awakening of a
Nation
by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi
Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul
Friedländer
What
Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America,
1815-1848" by
Daniel
Walker Howe
2009: Slavery by Another Name:
The Re-Enslavement of
Black Americans from the
Civil War to World War II by
Douglas A. Blackmon
The
Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by
Annette Gordon-Reed
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