Named for Hungarian-born American journalist Joseph Pulitzer, The Pulitzer Prize (www.pulitzer.org) is one of the most highly decorated honors in America today. Recognizing artistic pioneers in 21 different fields now, The Pulitzer Prize has established itself as one of the premier markers for literary and artistic progress in our country and beyond. We have listed the winners in both the fiction and nonfiction categories.

Fiction

2004: The Known World, Edward P. Jones
2003: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
2000 Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 The Hours, Michael Cunningham
1998 American Pastoral, Philip Roth
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Steven Millhauser
1996 Independence Day, Richard Ford
1995 The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
1994 The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler
1992 A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
1991 Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos
1989 Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
1988 Beloved, Toni Morrison
1987 A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor
1986 Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
1985 Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
1984 Ironweed, William Kennedy
1983 The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1982 Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
1980 The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer
1979 The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
1978 Elbow Room, James Alan McPherson
1977 No Award
1976 Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
1975 The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
1974 No Award
1973 The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
1972 Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
1971 No Award
1970 Collected Stories, Jean Stafford
1969 House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
1967 The Fixer, Bernard Malamud

Other Awards