Image of the gold medal that Pulitzer Prize winners receive.
The Pulitzer Prizes are a set of American Awards for composition in literature, reporting, and music.
- Note: The following are the winners in the Fiction or Novel category. Lower down is the General Nonfiction category. Other categories may be added later.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction or Novel[]
From 1918-1947 this award was for the "Novel", then it was renamed to be the "Fiction" category.
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| 2016 | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| 2014 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| 2013 | The Orphan Master's Son | Adam Johnson |
| 2012 | No Award Given | |
| 2011 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan |
| 2010 | Tinkers | Paul Harding |
| 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
| 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 |
| 1984 | Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| 1980 | The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer |
| 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | Edwin O'Connor |
| 1961 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | James A. Michener |
| 1947 | All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1943 | Dragon's Teeth | Upton Sinclair |
| 1942 | In This Our Life | Ellen Glasgow |
| 1941 | (No Award) | |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 1922 | Alice Adams | Booth Tarkington |
| 1921 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 1919 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |
| 1918 | His Family | Ernest Poole |
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction[]
The prize for General Nonfiction was added in 1962.
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond |
| 1990 | '[Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History | Stephen Jay Gould |
| 1985 | The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two | Studs Terkel |
| 1980 | Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| 1978 | The Dragons of Eden | Carl Sagan |
| 1962 | The Making of the President 1960 | Theodore Harold White |