Pulitzer Award Winners
The Pulitzer Awards were established by Joseph Pulitzer in 1917 and are currently administered by Columbia University. They honour achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. Included in this list are individual winners in any of the award's 21 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) | |
| Thomas Sigismund Stribling | 1933 | The Store | | |
| 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 | 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 | | |
| 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 | | |
| 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 | 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) | |
| Philip Roth | 1980 | The Ghost Writer | (Milton) | |
| William Wharton | 1980 | Birdy | (Albert) | |
| Frederick Buechner | 1981 | Godric | (Carl) | |
| John Kennedy Toole | 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces | | |
| William Maxwell | 1981 | So Long, See You Tomorrow | (Keepers) | |
| John Updike | 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich | (Hoyer) | |
| Marilynne Robinson | 1982 | Housekeeping | | |
| Robert Stone | 1982 | A Flag for Sunrise | | |
| Alice Walker | 1983 | The Color Purple | (Malsenior, Tallulah, Kate) | |
| Anne Tyler | 1983 | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | | |
| Chaim Grade | 1983 | Rabbis and Wives | | |
| Mary Oliver | 1984 | American Primitive | (Jane) | |
| Raymond Carver | 1984 | Cathedral | (Clevie) | |
| Thomas Berger | 1984 | The Feud | (Louis) | |
| William Kennedy | 1984 | Ironweed | (Joseph) | |
| Alison Lurie | 1985 | Foreign Affairs | | |
| Diana O'Hehir | 1985 | I Wish This War Were Over | (Farnham) | |
| Douglas Unger | 1985 | Leaving the Land | | |
| Anne Tyler | 1986 | The Accidental Tourist | | |
| Elizabeth Frank | 1986 | Louise Bogan: A Portrait | | |
| Larry McMurtry | 1986 | Lonesome Dove | (Jeff) | |
| Russell Banks | 1986 | Continental Drift | | |
| Donald Barthelme | 1987 | Paradise | | |
| Norman Rush | 1987 | Whites | | |
| Peter Taylor | 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | (Matthew, Hillsman) | |
| Alice McDermott | 1988 | That Night | | |
| Diane Johnson | 1988 | Persian Nights | | |
| Toni Morrison | 1988 | Beloved | (Chloe, Ardelia) | |
| Anne Tyler | 1989 | Breathing Lessons | | |
| Raymond Carver | 1989 | Where I'm Calling From | (Clevie) | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1989 | New and Collected Poems | (Purdy) | |
| E. L. Doctorow | 1990 | Billy Bathgate | (Edgar, Lawrence) | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | (Jerome) | |
| John Updike | 1991 | Rabbit at Rest | (Hoyer) | |
| Linda K. Hogan | 1991 | Mean Spirit | | |
| Tim O'Brien | 1991 | The Things They Carried | | |
| David Gates | 1992 | Jernigan | | |
| Don DeLillo | 1992 | Mao II | (Donald, Richard) | |
| Jane Smiley | 1992 | A Thousand Acres | | |
| Robert M. Pirsig | 1992 | Lila: An Inquiry into Morals | (Maynard) | |
| Alice McDermott | 1993 | At Weddings and Wakes | | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1993 | Black Water | | |
| Robert Olen Butler | 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 1994 | The Shipping News | (Edna) | |
| Philip Roth | 1994 | Operation Shylock: A Confession | (Milton) | |
| Reynolds Price | 1994 | The Collected Stories | | |
| Carol Shields | 1995 | The Stone Diaries | (Ann) | |
| Grace Paley | 1995 | The Collected Stories | | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1995 | What I Lived For by | | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1996 | Mr. Ives' Christmas | (Jerome) | |
| Richard Ford | 1996 | Sabbath's Theater | | |
| Richard Ford | 1996 | Independence Day | | |
| Joanna Scott | 1997 | The Manikin | | |
| Steven Millhauser | 1997 | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer | | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1997 | Unlocking the Air and Other Stories | | |
| Don DeLillo | 1998 | Underworld | (Donald, Richard) | |
| Philip Roth | 1998 | American Pastoral | (Milton) | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1998 | Bear and His Daughter: Stories | | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | 1999 | The Poisonwood Bible | | |
| Michael Cunningham | 1999 | The Hours | | |
| Russell Banks | 1999 | Cloudsplitter | | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 2000 | Close Range: Wyoming Stories | (Edna) | |
| Ha Jin | 2000 | Waiting | (Xuěfēi) | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies | | |
| Joy Williams | 2001 | The Quick and the Dead | | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 2001 | Blonde | | |
| Michael Chabon | 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | | |
| Colson Whitehead | 2002 | John Henry Days | | |
| Jonathan Franzen | 2002 | The Corrections | (Earl) | |
| Richard Russo | 2002 | Empire Falls | | |
| Adam Haslett | 2003 | You Are Not a Stranger Here | | |
| Andrea Barrett | 2003 | Servants of the Map: Stories | | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 2003 | Middlesex | (Kent) | |
| Edward P. Jones | 2004 | The Known World | (Paul) | |
| Marianne Wiggins | 2004 | Evidence of Things Unseen | | |
| Susan Choi | 2004 | American Woman | | |
| Ha Jin | 2005 | War Trash | (Xuěfēi) | |
| Marianne Wiggins | 2005 | Gilead | | |
| Ward Just | 2005 | An Unfinished Season | | |
| E. L. Doctorow | 2006 | The March | (Edgar, Lawrence) | |
| Geraldine Brooks | 2006 | March | | |
| Lee Martin | 2006 | The Bright Forever | | |
| Alice McDermott | 2007 | After This | | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 2007 | The Road | (Charles, Joseph) | |
| Richard Powers | 2007 | The Echo Maker | | |
| Denis Johnson | 2008 | Tree of Smoke | (Hale) | |
| Junot Díaz | 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | | |
| Lore Segal | 2008 | Shakespeare's Kitchen | | |
| Christine Schutt | 2009 | All Souls | | |
| Elizabeth Strout | 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | | |
| Louise Erdrich | 2009 | The Plague of Doves | (Karen) | |
| Daniyal Mueenuddin | 2010 | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | | |
| Lydia Millet | 2010 | Love in Infant Monkeys | | |
| Paul Harding | 2010 | Tinkers | | |
| Chang-rae Lee | 2011 | The Surrendered | | |
| Jennifer Egan | 2011 | A Visit From the Goon Squad | | |
| Jonathan Dee | 2011 | The Privileges | | |
| David Foster Wallace | 2012 | The Pale King | | |
| Denis Johnson | 2012 | Train Dreams | (Hale) | |
| Karen Russell | 2012 | Swamplandia! | |