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