Pulitzer Prize winners
List of Pulitzer Prize winners in the Fiction category.
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | no award | no award |
| 2011 | Jennifer Egan | A Visit From the Goon Squad |
| 2010 | Paul Harding | Tinkers |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
| 2008 | Junot Diaz | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| 2007 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road |
| 2006 | Geraldine Brooks | March |
| 2005 | Marilynne Robinson | Gilead |
| 2004 | Edward P. Jones | The Known World |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex |
| 2002 | Richard Russo | Empire Falls |
| 2001 | Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
| 2000 | Jhumpa Lahiri | Interpreter of Meladies |
| 1999 | Michael Cunningham | The Hours |
| 1998 | Philip Roth | American Pastoral |
| 1997 | Steven Millhauser | Martin Dressler: The Tale of An American Dreamer |
| 1996 | Richard Ford | Independence Day |
| 1995 | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries |
| 1994 | E Annie Proaulx | The Shipping News |
| 1993 | Robert Olen Butler | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain |
| 1992 | Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres |
| 1991 | John Updike | Rabbit at Rest |
| 1990 | Oscar Hijuelos | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| 1989 | Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons |
| 1988 | Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| 1987 | Peter Taylor | A Summons to Memphis |
| 1986 | Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| 1985 | Alison Lurie | Foreign Affairs |
| 1984 | William Kennedy | Ironweed |
| 1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| 1982 | John Updike | Rabbit is Rich |
| 1981 | John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| 1980 | Norman Mailer | The Executioner’s Song |