The Pulitzer Prize for fiction The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded, Columbia University since 1917. The awards are given on the recommendations of a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. The awards for Letters include Fiction, which is listed here, Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, and History. 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: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Steven 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: Stories, 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 (large Print), Eudora Welty 1972 Angle of Repose, Wallace Earle Stegner 1971 (no award) 1970 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, 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: A Reminiscence, 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: A Novel of World War II, Herman Wouk 1951 The Town, Conrad Richter 1950 The Way West, A B Guthrie 1949 Guard of Honor, James Gould Cozzens 1948 Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener 1947 All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren 1946 (no award) 1945 A Bell for Adano, John Hersey 1944 Journey in the Dark, Martin Flavin 1943 Dragon's Teeth I, Upton Sinclair 1942 In This Our Life, Ellen Glasgow 1941 (no award) 1940 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 1939 The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 1937 Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 1936 Honey in the Horn, Harold Lenoir Davis 1935 Now in November, Josephine W. Johnson 1934 Lamb in His Bosom, Caroline Miller 1933 The Store, Thomas Stribling 1932 The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck 1931 Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930 Laughing Boy, Oliver Lafarge 1929 Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder 1927 Early Autumn, Louis Bromfield 1926 Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis 1925 So Big, Edna Ferber 1924 The Able Mclaughlins, Margaret Wilson 1923 One of Ours, Willa Silbert Cather 1922 1921 The Age of Innocence (large Print), Edith Wharton 1920 (no award) 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington 1918 His Family, Ernest Poole