ShelfEvidentPulitzer Prize for Fiction — Complete Winners List
100 years of winners · Columbia University (Pulitzer Prize Board) · Since 1918 · ← Back to award page
| 2026 | Daniel Kraus | Atria Books | |
| 2025 | Percival Everett | Doubleday | |
| 2024 | Jayne Anne Phillips | Knopf | |
| 2023 | Hernan Diaz | Riverhead Books | |
| 2022 | Joshua Cohen | New York Review Books | |
| 2021 | Louise Erdrich | Harper | |
| 2020 | Colson Whitehead | Doubleday | |
| 2019 | Richard Powers | W. W. Norton & Company | |
| 2018 | Andrew Sean Greer | Little, Brown and Company | |
| 2017 | Colson Whitehead | Doubleday | |
| 2016 | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Grove Press | |
| 2015 | Anthony Doerr | Scribner | |
| 2014 | Donna Tartt | Little, Brown and Company | |
| 2013 | Adam Johnson | Random House | |
| 2011 | Jennifer Egan | Anchor Books | |
| 2010 | Paul Harding | Random House | |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Strout | Random House | |
| 2008 | Junot Díaz | Riverhead Books | |
| 2007 | Cormac McCarthy | Vintage Books | |
| 2006 | Geraldine Brooks | Penguin Books | |
| 2005 | Marilynne Robinson | — | |
| 2004 | Edward P. Jones | — | |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Eugenides | — | |
| 2002 | Richard Russo | — | |
| 2001 | Michael Chabon | — | |
| 2000 | Jhumpa Lahiri | — | |
| 1999 | Michael Cunningham | — | |
| 1998 | Philip Roth | — | |
| 1997 | Steven Millhauser | — | |
| 1996 | Richard Ford | — | |
| 1995 | Carol Shields | — | |
| 1994 | E. Annie Proulx | — | |
| 1993 | Robert Olen Butler | — | |
| 1992 | Jane Smiley | — | |
| 1991 | John Updike | — | |
| 1990 | Oscar Hijuelos | — | |
| 1989 | Anne Tyler | — | |
| 1988 | Toni Morrison | — | |
| 1987 | Peter Taylor | — | |
| 1986 | Larry McMurtry | — | |
| 1985 | Alison Lurie | — | |
| 1984 | William Kennedy | — | |
| 1983 | Alice Walker | — | |
| 1982 | John Updike | — | |
| 1981 | John Kennedy Toole | — | |
| 1980 | Norman Mailer | — | |
| 1979 | John Cheever | — | |
| 1978 | James Alan McPherson | — | |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | — | |
| 1975 | Michael Shaara | — | |
| 1973 | Eudora Welty | — | |
| 1972 | Wallace Stegner | — | |
| 1970 | Jean Stafford | — | |
| 1969 | N. Scott Momaday | — | |
| 1968 | William Styron | — | |
| 1967 | Bernard Malamud | — | |
| 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | — | |
| 1965 | Shirley Ann Grau | — | |
| 1963 | William Faulkner | — | |
| 1962 | Edwin O'Connor | — | |
| 1961 | Harper Lee | — | |
| 1960 | Allen Drury | — | |
| 1959 | Robert Lewis Taylor | — | |
| 1958 | James Agee | — | |
| 1956 | MacKinlay Kantor | — | |
| 1955 | William Faulkner | — | |
| 1953 | Ernest Hemingway | — | |
| 1952 | Herman Wouk | — | |
| 1951 | Conrad Richter | — | |
| 1950 | A. B. Guthrie | — | |
| 1949 | James Gould Cozzens | — | |
| 1948 | James A. Michener | — | |
| 1947 | Robert Penn Warren | — | |
| 1945 | John Hersey | — | |
| 1944 | Martin Flavin | — | |
| 1943 | Upton Sinclair | — | |
| 1942 | Ellen Glasgow | — | |
| 1940 | John Steinbeck | — | |
| 1939 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | — | |
| 1938 | John Phillips Marquand | — | |
| 1937 | Margaret Mitchell | — | |
| 1936 | Harold L. Davis | — | |
| 1935 | Josephine Winslow Johnson | — | |
| 1934 | Caroline Miller | — | |
| 1933 | T. S. Stribling | — | |
| 1932 | Pearl S. Buck | — | |
| 1931 | Margaret Ayer Barnes | — | |
| 1930 | Oliver La Farge | — | |
| 1929 | Julia Peterkin | — | |
| 1928 | Thornton Wilder | — | |
| 1927 | Louis Bromfield | — | |
| 1926 | Sinclair Lewis | — | |
| 1925 | Edna Ferber | — | |
| 1924 | Margaret Wilson | — | |
| 1923 | Willa Cather | — | |
| 1922 | Booth Tarkington | — | |
| 1921 | Edith Wharton | — | |
| 1919 | Booth Tarkington | — | |
| 1918 | Ernest Poole | — |
