100 Years of Pulitzer Fiction Prizes and a New Way to Submit an Entry to the Competition

Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University, New York City; Photo by John Smock

It’s the Pulitzer's 100th year of honoring excellence in journalism and the arts.

pulitzer.org Use the hashtag #Pulitzer100 on social media to let us know how you’re celebrating! Note: Full list of questions that will replace journalism entry letters in 2017 Pulitzer Prize contest

The Pulitzer Prize board aims in switching to a Q&A format is to make entering easier, to gather relevant information about entries, and to level the playing field. When the entry site for the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism opens in December, entrants will no longer be required to write entry letters. Entrants will instead be expected to answer questions tailored for each category. Read the full list of the questions here as well as the list of the 2017 members and how to enter.

The Pulitzer Prizes Fiction Winners The First 50 Years: 1917-1966 Pulitzer Fiction Checklist

 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

 1965 The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau; 1964 No award given

 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner

 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor

 1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

 1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee; 1957 No award given

 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner, 1954 No award given

 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

 1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter

 1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie

 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

 1947 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren; 1946 No award given

 1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

 1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin

 1943 Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair

 1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow; 1941 No award given

 1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

 1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand

 1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

 1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis

 1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson

 1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller

 1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling

 1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

 1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes

 1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge

 1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin

 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

 1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield

 1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

 1925 So Big by Edna Ferber

 1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

 1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather

 1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

 1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; 1920 No award given

 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

 1918 His Family by Ernest Poole; 1917 No award given

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