Pulitzer Award Winners
The Pulitzer Awards were established by Joseph Pulitzer in 1917 and are currently administered by Columbia University. They honour American achievements in print and online journalism, literature and musical composition. Included in this list are individual winners in any of the award's 23 categories.
| Name | Year | Work | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. B. Guthrie Jr. | 1950 | The Way West | (Alfred, Bertram) |  |
| Alice Walker | 1983 | The Color Purple | (Malsenior, Tallulah, Kate) | |
| Alison Lurie | 1985 | Foreign Affairs | | |
| Allen Drury | 1960 | Advise and Consent | (Stuart) | |
| Amy Lowell | 1926 | What's O'Clock | (Lawrence) | |
| Anne Sexton | 1967 | Live or Die | (Gray) | |
| Anne Tyler | 1989 | Breathing Lessons | | |
| Arthur Miller | 1949 | Death of a Salesman | | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | 2023 | Demon Copperhead | | |
| Bernard Malamud | 1967 | The Fixer | | |
| Booth Tarkington | 1922 | Alice Adams | | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1940 | Abraham Lincoln: The War Years | (August) | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1951 | Complete Poems | (August) | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1919 | Cornhuskers | (August) | |
| Carol Shields | 1995 | The Stone Diaries | (Ann) | |
| Caroline Miller | 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom | (Pafford) | |
| Colson Whitehead | 2020 | The Nickel Boys | | |
| Colson Whitehead | 2017 | The Underground Railroad | | |
| Conrad Aiken | 1930 | Selected Poems | (Potter) | |
| Conrad Richter | 1951 | The Town | (Michael) | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 2007 | The Road | (Charles, Joseph) | |
| Edith Wharton | 1921 | The Age of Innocence | | |
| Edna Ferber | 1925 | So Big | | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1923 | The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver | (Nancy) | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 1994 | The Shipping News | (Edna) | |
| Edward P. Jones | 2004 | The Known World | (Paul) | |
| Edwin O'Connor | 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | | |
| Elizabeth Frank | 1986 | Louise Bogan: A Portrait | | |
| Elizabeth Strout | 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | | |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1942 | In This Our Life | (Anderson, Gholson) | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea | (Miller) | |
| Ernest Poole | 1918 | His Family | (Cook) | |
| Eudora Welty | 1973 | The Optimist's Daughter | | |
| George Dillon | 1932 | The Flowering Stone | (Hill) | |
| Geraldine Brooks | 2006 | March | | |
| Harold L. Davis | 1936 | Honey in the Horn | (Lenoir) | |
| Harper Lee | 1961 | To Kill a Mockingbird | (Nelle) | |
| Herman Wouk | 1952 | The Caine Mutiny | | |
| James Agee | 1958 | A Death in the Family | (Rufus) | |
| James Gould Cozzens | 1949 | Guard of Honor | | |
| James Alan McPherson | 1978 | Elbow Room | | |
| James A. Michener | 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | (Albert) | |
| Jane Smiley | 1992 | A Thousand Acres | | |
| Jean Stafford | 1970 | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford | | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 2003 | Middlesex | (Kent) | |
| Jennifer Egan | 2011 | A Visit From the Goon Squad | | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies | | |
| John Cheever | 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever | (William) | |
| John Hersey | 1945 | A Bell for Adano | (Richard) | |
| John Phillips Marquand | 1938 | The Late George Apley | | |
| John Steinbeck | 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | (Ernst) | |
| John Kennedy Toole | 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces | | |
| John Updike | 1991 | Rabbit at Rest | (Hoyer) | |
| John Updike | 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich | (Hoyer) | |
| Josephine Johnson | 1935 | Now in November | (Winslow) | |
| Julia Peterkin | 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary | | |
| Junot Díaz | 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | | |
| Katherine Anne Porter | 1966 | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | | |
| Larry McMurtry | 1986 | Lonesome Dove | (Jeff) | |
| Louis Bromfield | 1927 | Early Autumn | | |
| Louise Erdrich | 2021 | The Night Watchman | (Karen) | |
| MacKinlay Kantor | 1956 | Andersonville | | |
| Margaret Ayer Barnes | 1931 | Years of Grace | | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1937 | Gone with the Wind | (Munnerlyn) | |
| Margaret Widdemer | 1919 | The Old Road to Paradise | | |
| Margaret Wilson | 1924 | The Able McLaughlins | | |
| Marianne Moore | 1951 | Collected Poems | (Craig) | |
| Marilynne Robinson | 2005 | Gilead | | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1939 | The Yearling | | |
| Martin Flavin | 1944 | Journey in the Dark | (Archer) | |
| Mary Oliver | 1984 | American Primitive | (Jane) | |
| Michael Chabon | 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | | |
| Michael Cunningham | 1999 | The Hours | | |
| Michael Shaara | 1975 | The Killer Angels | | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1969 | House Made of Dawn | (Navarre) | |
| Norman Mailer | 1980 | The Executioner's Song | (Kingsley) | |
| Oliver La Farge | 1930 | Laughing Boy | (Hazard, Perry) | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | (Jerome) | |
| Paul Harding | 2010 | Tinkers | | |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1932 | The Good Earth | (Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu) | |
| Peter Taylor | 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | (Matthew, Hillsman) | |
| Philip Roth | 1998 | American Pastoral | (Milton) | |
| Phyllis McGinley | 1961 | Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades | | |
| Richard Ford | 1996 | Independence Day | | |
| Richard Powers | 2019 | The Overstory | | |
| Richard Russo | 2002 | Empire Falls | | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1989 | New and Collected Poems | (Purdy) | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1957 | Things of This World | (Purdy) | |
| Robert Olen Butler | 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | | |
| Robert Lewis Taylor | 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1947 | All the King's Men | | |
| Sam Shepard | 1979 | Buried Child | (Samuel) | |
| Sara Teasdale | 1918 | Love Songs | (Sarah, Trevor) | |
| Saul Bellow | 1976 | Humboldt's Gift | | |
| Shirley Ann Grau | 1965 | The Keepers of the House | | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1926 | Arrowsmith | (Harry) | |
| Steven Millhauser | 1997 | Martin Dressler | | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1931 | Alison's House | (Keating) | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1948 | A Streetcar Named Desire | (Thomas, Lanier) | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1955 | Cat on A Hot Tin Roof | (Thomas, Lanier) | |
| Theodore Roethke | 1954 | The Waking | (Huebner) | |
| T. S. Stribling | 1933 | The Store | (Thomas, Sigismund) | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1938 | Our Town | (Niven) | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1928 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | (Niven) | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth | (Niven) | |
| Toni Morrison | 1988 | Beloved | (Chloe, Ardelia) | |
| Upton Sinclair | 1943 | Dragon's Teeth | (Beall) | |
| Wallace Stegner | 1972 | Angle of Repose | (Earle) | |
| Wallace Stevens | 1955 | Collected Poems | | |
| Willa Cather | 1923 | One of Ours | | |
| William Faulkner | 1954 | A Fable | (Cuthbert) | |
| William Faulkner | 1963 | The Reivers | (Cuthbert) | |
| William Kennedy | 1984 | Ironweed | (Joseph) | |
| William Styron | 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | (Clark) | |
| Zoe Akins | 1935 | The Old Maid | (Byrd) | |