The Pulitzer Prize

The much-coveted Pulitzer Prize, named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, honours books that depict the positive and negative aspects of the human condition, with preference going to those which portray American life. Create your own collection of Pulitzer Prize winners. (Click on a title to search the abebooks.com database for that book.) (Books listed are winners in the "Fiction" category.)

2003 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides     2002 Empire Falls Richard Russo	2000 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri     2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon	1999 - The Hours, Michael Cunningham 1998 - American Pastoral, Philip Roth 1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Stephen Millhauser 1996 - Independence Day Richard Ford 1995 - The Stone Diaries Carol Shields 1994 - The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx 1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler 1992 - A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1991 - Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1990 - The 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 - A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 - The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer 1979 - The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever 1978 - Elbow Room James Alan McPherson 1977 - No Award 1976 - Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow 1975 - The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 1974 - No Award 1973 - The 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 - The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 1967 - The Fixer Bernard Malamud 1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter 1965 - The Keepers of the House Shirley Ann Grau 1964 - No Award 1963 - The Reivers William Faulkner 1962 - The Edge of Sadness Edwin O’Connor 1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 - Advise and Consent Allen Drury 1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Robert Lewis Taylor 1958 - A Death in the Family James Agee 1957 - No Award 1956 - Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor 1955 - A Fable William Faulkner 1954 - No Award 1953 - The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 - The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk 1951 - The Town Conrad Richter 1950 - The Way West A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 1949 - Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens 1948 - Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener