Pulitzer Award Winners

The Pulitzer Awards were established by Joseph Pulitzer in 1917 and are currently administered by Columbia University. They honour American achievements in print and online journalism, literature and musical composition. Included in this list are individual winners in any of the award's 23 categories.
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NameYearWorkOther Names
A. B. Guthrie Jr.1950The Way West(Alfred, Bertram)
Alice Walker1983The Color Purple(Malsenior, Tallulah, Kate)
Alison Lurie1985Foreign Affairs
Allen Drury1960Advise and Consent(Stuart)
Amy Lowell1926What's O'Clock(Lawrence)
Anne Sexton1967Live or Die(Gray)
Anne Tyler1989Breathing Lessons
Arthur Miller1949Death of a Salesman
Barbara Kingsolver2023Demon Copperhead
Bernard Malamud1967The Fixer
Booth Tarkington1922Alice Adams
Carl Sandburg1940Abraham Lincoln: The War Years(August)
Carl Sandburg1951Complete Poems(August)
Carl Sandburg1919Cornhuskers(August)
Carol Shields1995The Stone Diaries(Ann)
Caroline Miller1934Lamb in His Bosom(Pafford)
Colson Whitehead2020The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead2017The Underground Railroad
Conrad Aiken1930Selected Poems(Potter)
Conrad Richter1951The Town(Michael)
Cormac McCarthy2007The Road(Charles, Joseph)
Edith Wharton1921The Age of Innocence
Edna Ferber1925So Big
Edna St. Vincent Millay1923The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver(Nancy)
E. Annie Proulx1994The Shipping News(Edna)
Edward P. Jones2004The Known World(Paul)
Edwin O'Connor1962The Edge of Sadness
Elizabeth Frank1986Louise Bogan: A Portrait
Elizabeth Strout2009Olive Kitteridge
Ellen Glasgow1942In This Our Life(Anderson, Gholson)
Ernest Hemingway1953The Old Man and the Sea(Miller)
Ernest Poole1918His Family(Cook)
Eudora Welty1973The Optimist's Daughter
George Dillon1932The Flowering Stone(Hill)
Geraldine Brooks2006March
Harold L. Davis1936Honey in the Horn(Lenoir)
Harper Lee1961To Kill a Mockingbird(Nelle)
Herman Wouk1952The Caine Mutiny
James Agee1958A Death in the Family(Rufus)
James Gould Cozzens1949Guard of Honor
James Alan McPherson1978Elbow Room
James A. Michener1948Tales of the South Pacific(Albert)
Jane Smiley1992A Thousand Acres
Jean Stafford1970The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
Jeffrey Eugenides2003Middlesex(Kent)
Jennifer Egan2011A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jhumpa Lahiri2000Interpreter of Maladies
John Cheever1979The Stories of John Cheever(William)
John Hersey1945A Bell for Adano(Richard)
John Phillips Marquand1938The Late George Apley
John Steinbeck1940The Grapes of Wrath(Ernst)
John Kennedy Toole1981A Confederacy of Dunces
John Updike1991Rabbit at Rest(Hoyer)
John Updike1982Rabbit Is Rich(Hoyer)
Josephine Johnson1935Now in November(Winslow)
Julia Peterkin1929Scarlet Sister Mary
Junot Díaz2008The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Katherine Anne Porter1966The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Larry McMurtry1986Lonesome Dove(Jeff)
Lin-Manuel Miranda2016Hamilton
Louis Bromfield1927Early Autumn
Louise Erdrich2021The Night Watchman(Karen)
MacKinlay Kantor1956Andersonville
Margaret Ayer Barnes1931Years of Grace
Margaret Mitchell1937Gone with the Wind(Munnerlyn)
Margaret Widdemer1919The Old Road to Paradise
Margaret Wilson1924The Able McLaughlins
Marianne Moore1951Collected Poems(Craig)
Marilynne Robinson2005Gilead
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings1939The Yearling
Martin Flavin1944Journey in the Dark(Archer)
Mary Oliver1984American Primitive(Jane)
Michael Chabon2001The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Cunningham1999The Hours
Michael Shaara1975The Killer Angels
N. Scott Momaday1969House Made of Dawn(Navarre)
Norman Mailer1980The Executioner's Song(Kingsley)
Oliver La Farge1930Laughing Boy(Hazard, Perry)
Oscar Hijuelos1990The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love(Jerome)
Paul Harding2010Tinkers
Pearl S. Buck1932The Good Earth(Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu)
Peter Taylor1987A Summons to Memphis(Matthew, Hillsman)
Philip Roth1998American Pastoral(Milton)
Phyllis McGinley1961Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
Richard Ford1996Independence Day
Richard Powers2019The Overstory
Richard Russo2002Empire Falls
Richard Wilbur1989New and Collected Poems(Purdy)
Richard Wilbur1957Things of This World(Purdy)
Robert Olen Butler1993A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Lewis Taylor1959The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Robert Penn Warren1947All the King's Men
Sam Shepard1979Buried Child(Samuel)
Sara Teasdale1918Love Songs(Sarah, Trevor)
Saul Bellow1976Humboldt's Gift
Shirley Ann Grau1965The Keepers of the House
Sinclair Lewis1926Arrowsmith(Harry)
Steven Millhauser1997Martin Dressler
Susan Glaspell1931Alison's House(Keating)
Tennessee Williams1948A Streetcar Named Desire(Thomas, Lanier)
Tennessee Williams1955Cat on A Hot Tin Roof(Thomas, Lanier)
Theodore Roethke1954The Waking(Huebner)
T. S. Stribling1933The Store(Thomas, Sigismund)
Thornton Wilder1938Our Town(Niven)
Thornton Wilder1928The Bridge of San Luis Rey(Niven)
Thornton Wilder1943The Skin of Our Teeth(Niven)
Toni Morrison1988Beloved(Chloe, Ardelia)
Upton Sinclair1943Dragon's Teeth(Beall)
Wallace Stegner1972Angle of Repose(Earle)
Wallace Stevens1955Collected Poems
Willa Cather1923One of Ours
William Faulkner1954A Fable(Cuthbert)
William Faulkner1963The Reivers(Cuthbert)
William Kennedy1984Ironweed(Joseph)
William Styron1968The Confessions of Nat Turner(Clark)
Zoe Akins1935The Old Maid(Byrd)