Pulitzer Prize: Fiction

This award was redefined from "novels" to "fiction in book form" in 1947.

• 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
• 2007 The Road Cormac McCarthy
• 2006 March Geraldine Brooks
• 2005 Gilead Marilynne Robinson
• 2004 The Known world Edward P. Jones
• 2003 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
• 2002 Empire Falls Richard Russo
• 2001 The Amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
• 2000 Interpreter of maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
• 1999 The Hours Michael Cunningham
• 1998 American Pastoral Philip Roth
• 1997 Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser
• 1996 Independence Day Richard Ford
• 1995 Stone diaries Carol Shields
• 1994 Shipping news E. Annie Proulx
• 1993 Good scent from a strange mountain Robert Olen Butler
• 1992 A Thousand acres Jane Smiley
• 1991 Rabbit at rest John Updike
• 1990 Mambo Kings play songs of love Oscar Hijuelos
• 1989 Breathing lessons Anne Tyler
• 1988 Beloved Toni Morrison
• 1987 A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor
• 1986 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
• 1985 Foreign affairs Alison Lurie
• 1984 Ironweed William Kennedy
• 1983 The Color purple Alice Walker
• 1982 Rabbit is rich John Updike
• 1981 Confederacy of dunces John Kennedy Toole
• 1980 The Executioner's song Norman Mailer
• 1979 Stories of John Cheever John Cheever
• 1978 Elbow Room James Alan McPherson
• 1977 No Award
• 1976 Humboldt's gift Saul Bellow
• 1975 Killer angels Michael Shaara
• 1974 No Award
• 1973 Optimist's daughter Eudora Welty
• 1972 Angle of repose Wallace Stegner
• 1971 No Award
• 1970 Collected stories Jean Stafford
• 1969 House made of dawn N. Scott Momaday
• 1968 Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
• 1967 Fixer Bernard Malamud
• 1966 Collected stories Katherine Anne Porter
• 1965 Keepers of the house Shirley Ann Grau