Pulitzer Prize: Letters: Fiction
The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American
journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University
since 1917.
This award was redefined from "novels" to "fiction in book
form" in 1947
- 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 Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 1994 Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- 1993 Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen
Butler
- 1992 Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- 1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
- 1990 Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
- 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 1987 Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
- 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
- 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
- 1983 Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
- 1981 Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- 1980 Executioners Song by Norman Mailer
- 1979 Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- 1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
- 1977 No Award
- 1976 Humbolts Gift by Saul Bellow
- 1975 Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- 1974 No Award
- 1973 Optimists 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 Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- 1967 Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
- 1965 Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
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