The Pulitzer Prize

Below is a list of the Pulitzer Prize Winners since 1965.


2004
Fiction: The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

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Nonfiction: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)

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2003
Fiction: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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Nonfiction: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Basic Books)

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2002
Fiction: Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)

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Nonfiction: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster)

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2001
Fiction: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

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Nonfiction: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

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2000
Fiction: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Nonfiction: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

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1999
Fiction: The Hours by Michael Cunningham

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Nonfiction: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

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1998
Fiction: American Pastoral by Philip Roth

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Nonfiction: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

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1997 Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser

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1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford

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1995 Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

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1994 Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

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1993 Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

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1992 Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

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1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

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1990 Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

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1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

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1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison

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1987 Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

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1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty

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1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

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1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy

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1983 Color Purple by Alice Walker

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1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike

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1981 Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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1980 Executioners Song by Norman Mailer

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1979 Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

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1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

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1977 No Award


1976 Humbolts Gift by Saul Bellow

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1975 Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

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1974 No Award


1973 Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty

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1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

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1971 No Award


1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

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1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

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1968 Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

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1967 Fixer by Bernard Malamud

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1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

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1965 Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau