The Pulitzer Prizes Fiction Winners The Second 50 Years: 1967-2016 Pulitzer Fiction Checklist
2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2013 The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson; 2012 No award given
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding
2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980 The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
1979 The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever
1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson; 1977 No award given
1976 Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara; 1974 No award given
1973 The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner; 1971 No award given
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
To celebrate 100 years of Pulitzer Prizes, and to help guide you as you read-through the categories, we created Fiction and Drama bookmarks listing every Pulitzer-winning book and author. You may download the Pulitzer100 Fiction PDF and/or the Pulitzer100 Drama PDF. Both sides of the bookmark are provided. We suggest printing on card stock or laminating. Note they are 9" long by 4.1" wide. When you have your bookmark, please show us your progress and your books by using the hashtag #pulitzer100 on social media. Happy reading!
About the History of the Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Diaries: Inside America's Greatest Prize by John Hohenberg (Syracuse University Press, 1997)
This collection of Prize-related excerpts from Hohenberg's voluminous diaries offers probing and capacious insights into an increasingly tulmultuous epoch, culminating in the unprecedented Prizewinning disclosures of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers in the early 1970s and the divestment of Columbia University's trustees from the Prize process in 1975. Although he frequently clashed with his colleagues on the Journalism School's full-time faculty (as detailed by James Boylan in Pulitzer's School), the mercurial professor remained an indefagitable champion of the Prizes until his death in 2000, returning to Morningside Heights as a juror well into his nominal "retirement" as a roving journalism instructor at various Southern universities. Hohenberg enjoined generations of emergent journalists to "go with what you got," and there is no greater testament to his maxim than this book.
The Pulitzer Prizes by John Hohenberg (Columbia University Press, 1974)
Although he equivocated and carefully elided several of the controversies that were subsequently foregrounded in The Pulitzer Diaries, the official history of the Prizes remains a nuanced work of scholarship forty years on; his account of the Prizes' gestation--ballasted by the belated archivization of the Prizes' files by Hohenberg and his staff--is nearly definitive, ranking alongside Andrew Dolkart's Morningside Heights and Robert McCaughey's Stand, Columbia as an integral contribution to the history of Columbia University. As with both volumes of The Pulitzer Prize Story, inexpensive secondhand copies are quite common.
Edited by Dr. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer of Ruhr University, the Pulitzer Prize Archive series (published by K. G. Saur and more recently by LIT Verlag) showcases rare selections from Prizewinning entries and other archival material maintained by the Administrator's Office, including jury reports and miscellaneous correspondence. Although scarce on the retail market, the series can be obtained via interlibrary loan and at many academic libraries. Representative titles include:
Supplements: Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Biography (2007)
Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for History: Discussions, Decisions and Documents (2005)
Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System, 1917-2000: Decision-Making Processes in All Award Categories Based on Unpublished Sources (2003)
A History and Anthology of Award-Winning Materials in Journalism, Letters and Arts (Thomson Gale 2003)
Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917-2000: Journalists, Writers and Composers on Their Ways to the Coverted Awards (2002)
Press Photography Awards 1942-1998 (2000)
Editorial Cartoon Awards 1922-1997 (1999)
A History & Anthology of Award-Winning Materials in Journalism Delles Poetry Verse (1998)
General Nonfiction Awards 1962-1993: From the Election of John F. Kennedy to a Retrospect of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1995)
Cultural Criticism 1969-1990: From Architectural Damages to Press Imperfections (1993)
Political Editorial 1916-1988 from War-Related Conflicts to Metropolitan Disputes (1990)
Social Commentary 1969-1989: From University Troubles to a California Earthquake (1991)
Local Reporting 1947-1987: From a County Vote Fraude to a Corrupt City Council (1989)
National Reporting, 1941-1986: From Labor Conflicts to the Challenger Disaster (1988)
About the Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs
Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs edited by Hal Buell (New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishing, 2002)
Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs edited by Cyma Rubin and Eric Newton (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000)
Websites
Columbia University Journalism Library's Pulitzer Archives are composed of the winning entries in the Journalism categories of the Prizes. For the years 1917-1995, winning entries are on microfilm. For the years 1987 to 2011, winning entries are available in print form.
Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library's Pulitzer Prize Collection consists of the original prize-winning exhibits. In many cases, the exhibit is accompanied by an entry form, a nominating letter, photograph of winner, biography of winner.
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