| The Pulitzer Prize winners - Fiction | |
 1948 |
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) |
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1949 |
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) |
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1950 |
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane) |
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1951 |
The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) |
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1952 |
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) |
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1953 |
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) |
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1954 |
(No Award) |
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1955 |
A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) |
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1956 |
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) |
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1957 |
(No Award) |
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1958 |
A
Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky) |
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1959 |
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday) |
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1960 |
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) |
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1961 |
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) |
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1962 |
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little) |
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1963 |
The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) |
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1964 |
(No Award) |
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1965 |
The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random) |
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1966 |
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) |
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1967 |
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar) |
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1968 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random) |
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1969 |
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper) |
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1970 |
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar) |
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1971 |
(No Award) |
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1972 |
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) |
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1973 |
The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) |
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1974 |
(No Award) |
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1975 |
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) |
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1976 |
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) |
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1977 |
(No Award) |
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1978 |
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press) |
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1979 |
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) |
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1980 |
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little, Brown) |
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1981 |
A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) |
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1982 |
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf), the latest novel in a memorable sequence |
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1983 |
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) |
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1984 |
Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) |
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1985 |
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) |
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1986 |
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) |
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1987 |
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1988 |
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1989 |
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1990 |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) |
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1991 |
Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1992 |
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1993 |
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) |
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1994 |
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) |
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1995 |
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) |
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1996 |
Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1997 |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) |
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1998 |
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) |
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1999 |
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
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2000 |
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin) |
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2001 |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) |
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2002 |
Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) |