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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was established by Columbia University in 1917. The Fiction award is given annually for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably dealing with American life. Other literary awards are given for poetry, non-fiction, biography, autobiography and history. Famous winners of the Fiction prize include The Color Purple (1983), The Old Man and the Sea (1953), Gone with the Wind (1937), and The Gapes of Wrath (1940).

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1917 - 1939

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Year	Title	Author	search
1917	No Award
1918	*His Family*	Ernest Poole	search biblion
1919	The Magnificent Ambersons	Booth Tarkington	search biblion
1920	No Award
1921	*The Age of Innocence*	Edith Wharton	search biblion
1922	*Alice Adams*	Booth Tarkington	search biblion
1923	One of Ours	Willa Cather	search biblion
1924	The Able McLaughlins	Margaret Wilson	search biblion
1925	So Big	Edna Ferber	search biblion
1926	Arrowsmith	Sinclair Lewis	search biblion
1927	Early Autumn	Louis Bromfield	search biblion
1928	Strange Interlude	Eugene O'Neill	search biblion
1929	Scarlet Sister Mary	Julia Peterkin	search biblion
1930	Laughing Boy	Oliver Lafarge	search biblion
1931	Years of Grace	Margaret Ayer Barnes	search biblion
1932	The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck	search biblion
1933	The Store	T. S. Stribling	search biblion
1934	Lamb in His Bosom	Caroline Miller	search biblion
1935	Now in November	Josephine Winslow Johnson	search biblion
1936	Honey in the Horn	Harold L. Davis	search biblion
1937	Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	search biblion
1938	The Late George Apley	John Phillips Marquand	search biblion
1939	The Yearling	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	search biblion

1940 - 1959

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Year	Title	Author	search
1940	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	search biblion
1941	No Award
1942	In This Our Life	Ellen Glasgow	search biblion
1943	Dragon's Teeth	Upton Sinclair	search biblion
1944	Journey in the Dark	Martin Flavin	search biblion
1945	A Bell for Adano	John Hersey	search biblion
1946	No Award
1947	All the King's Men	Robert Penn Warren	search biblion
1948	Tales of the South Pacific	James A. Michener	search biblion
1949	Guard of Honor	James Gould Cozzens	search biblion
1950	The Way West	A. B. Guthrie, Jr.	search biblion
1951	The Town	Conrad Richter	search biblion
1952	The Caine Mutiny	Herman Wouk	search biblion
1953	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	search biblion
1954	No Award
1955	A Fable	William Faulkner	search biblion
1956	Andersonville	MacKinlay Kantor	search biblion
1957	No Award
1958	A Death In The Family (a posthumous publication)	James Agee	search biblion
1959	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters	Robert Lewis Taylor	search biblion

1960 - 1979

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Year	Title	Author	search
1960	Advise and Consent	Allen Drury	search biblion
1961	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	search biblion
1962	The Edge of Sadness	Edwin O'Connor	search biblion
1963	The Reivers	William Faulkner	search biblion
1964	No Award
1965	The Keepers Of The House	Shirley Ann Grau	search biblion
1966	Collected Stories	Katherine Anne Porter	search biblion
1967	The Fixer	Bernard Malamud	search biblion
1968	The Confessions of Nat Turner	William Styron	search biblion
1969	House Made of Dawn	N. Scott Momaday	search biblion
1970	Collected Stories	Jean Stafford	search biblion
1971	No Award
1972	Angle of Repose	Wallace Stegner	search biblion
1973	The Optimists Daughter	Eudora Welty	search biblion
1974	No Award
1975	The Killer Angels	Michael Shaara	search biblion
1976	Humboldt's Gift	Saul Bellow	search biblion
1977	No Award
1978	Elbow Room	James Alan McPherson	search biblion
1979	The Stories of John Cheever	John Cheever	search biblion

1980 - 2001

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Year	Title	Author	search
1980	The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer	search biblion
1981	A Confederacy of Dunces (a posthumous publication)	John Kennedy Toole	search biblion
1982	Rabbit Is Rich	John Updike	search biblion
1983	The Color Purple	Alice Walker	search biblion
1984	Ironweed	William Kennedy	search biblion
1985	Foreign Affairs	Alison Lurie	search biblion
1986	Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry	search biblion
1987	A Summons to Memphis	Peter Taylor	search biblion
1988	Beloved	Toni Morrison	search biblion
1989	Breathing Lessons	Anne Tyler	search biblion
1990	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love	Oscar Hijuelos	search biblion
1991	Rabbit At Rest	John Updike	search biblion
1992	A Thousand Acres	Jane Smiley	search biblion
1993	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain	Robert Olen Butler	search biblion
1994	The Shipping News	E. Annie Proulx	search biblion
1995	The Stone Diaries	Carol Shields	search biblion
1996	Independence Day	Richard Ford	search biblion
1997	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer	Steven Millhauser	search biblion
1998	American Pastoral	Philip Roth	search biblion
1999	The Hours	Michael Cunningham	search biblion
2000	Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	search biblion
2001	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	Michael Chabon	search biblion

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