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 given 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