Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel was replaced in 1948 with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

1948 James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific
1949 James Gould Cozzens - Guard of Honor
1950 A. B. Guthrie, Jr - The Way West
1951 Conrad Richter - The Town
1952 Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
1953 Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
1954 no award given
1955 William Faulkner - A Fable
1956 MacKinlay Kantor - Andersonville
1957 no award given
1958 James Agee - A Death In The Family
1959 Robert Lewis Taylor - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1960 Allen Drury - Advise and Consent
1961 Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
1962 Edwin O'Connor - The Edge of Sadness
1963 William Faulkner - The Reivers
1964 no award given
1965 Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers Of The House
1966 Katherine Anne Porter - Collected Stories
1967 Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
1968 William Styron - The Confessions of Nat Turner Styron
1969 N. Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn
1970 Jean Stafford - Collected Stories
1971 no award given
1972 Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
1973 Eudora Welty - The Optimists Daughter
1974 no award given¹
1975 Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels
1976 Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
1977 no award given
1978 James Alan McPherson - Elbow Room
1979 John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
1980 Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song
1981 John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
1982 John Updike - Rabbit Is Rich
1983 Alice Walker - The Color Purple
1984 William Kennedy - Ironweed
1985 Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
1986 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
1987 Peter Taylor - A Summons to Memphis
1988 Toni Morrison - Beloved
1989 Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
1990 Oscar Hijuelos - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1991 John Updike - Rabbit At Rest
1992 Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres
1993 Robert Olen Butler - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1994 E. Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
1995 Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries
1996 Richard Ford - Independence Day
1997 Steven Millhauser - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
1998 Philip Roth - American Pastoral
1999 Michael Cunningham - The Hours
2000 Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
2001 Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2002 Richard Russo - Empire Falls

¹ The fiction jury voted unanimously to grant the 1974 award to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, but the rest of the Pulitzer panel overturned this decision. See Gravity's Rainbow for details.