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.
| Name | Year | Work | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Hersey | 1945 | A Bell for Adano | (Richard) |  |
| John Kennedy Toole | 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces | | |
| James Agee | 1958 | A Death in the Family | (Rufus) | |
| William Faulkner | 1954 | A Fable | (Cuthbert) | |
| Robert Olen Butler | 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1948 | A Streetcar Named Desire | (Thomas, Lanier) | |
| Peter Taylor | 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | (Matthew, Hillsman) | |
| Jane Smiley | 1992 | A Thousand Acres | | |
| Jennifer Egan | 2011 | A Visit From the Goon Squad | | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1940 | Abraham Lincoln: The War Years | (August) | |
| Allen Drury | 1960 | Advise and Consent | (Stuart) | |
| Booth Tarkington | 1922 | Alice Adams | | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1931 | Alison's House | (Keating) | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1947 | All the King's Men | | |
| Philip Roth | 1998 | American Pastoral | (Milton) | |
| Mary Oliver | 1984 | American Primitive | (Jane) | |
| MacKinlay Kantor | 1956 | Andersonville | | |
| Wallace Stegner | 1972 | Angle of Repose | (Earle) | |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1926 | Arrowsmith | (Harry) | |
| Toni Morrison | 1988 | Beloved | (Chloe, Ardelia) | |
| Anne Tyler | 1989 | Breathing Lessons | | |
| Sam Shepard | 1979 | Buried Child | (Samuel) | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1955 | Cat on A Hot Tin Roof | (Thomas, Lanier) | |
| Marianne Moore | 1951 | Collected Poems | (Craig) | |
| Wallace Stevens | 1955 | Collected Poems | | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1951 | Complete Poems | (August) | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1919 | Cornhuskers | (August) | |
| Arthur Miller | 1949 | Death of a Salesman | | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | 2023 | Demon Copperhead | | |
| Upton Sinclair | 1943 | Dragon's Teeth | (Beall) | |
| Louis Bromfield | 1927 | Early Autumn | | |
| James Alan McPherson | 1978 | Elbow Room | | |
| Richard Russo | 2002 | Empire Falls | | |
| Alison Lurie | 1985 | Foreign Affairs | | |
| Marilynne Robinson | 2005 | Gilead | | |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1937 | Gone with the Wind | (Munnerlyn) | |
| James Gould Cozzens | 1949 | Guard of Honor | | |
| Ernest Poole | 1918 | His Family | (Cook) | |
| Harold L. Davis | 1936 | Honey in the Horn | (Lenoir) | |
| N. Scott Momaday | 1969 | House Made of Dawn | (Navarre) | |
| Saul Bellow | 1976 | Humboldt's Gift | | |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1942 | In This Our Life | (Anderson, Gholson) | |
| Richard Ford | 1996 | Independence Day | | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies | | |
| William Kennedy | 1984 | Ironweed | (Joseph) | |
| Martin Flavin | 1944 | Journey in the Dark | (Archer) | |
| Caroline Miller | 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom | (Pafford) | |
| Oliver La Farge | 1930 | Laughing Boy | (Hazard, Perry) | |
| Anne Sexton | 1967 | Live or Die | (Gray) | |
| Larry McMurtry | 1986 | Lonesome Dove | (Jeff) | |
| Elizabeth Frank | 1986 | Louise Bogan: A Portrait | | |
| Sara Teasdale | 1918 | Love Songs | (Sarah, Trevor) | |
| Geraldine Brooks | 2006 | March | | |
| Steven Millhauser | 1997 | Martin Dressler | | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 2003 | Middlesex | (Kent) | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1989 | New and Collected Poems | (Purdy) | |
| Josephine Johnson | 1935 | Now in November | (Winslow) | |
| Elizabeth Strout | 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | | |
| Willa Cather | 1923 | One of Ours | | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1938 | Our Town | (Niven) | |
| John Updike | 1991 | Rabbit at Rest | (Hoyer) | |
| John Updike | 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich | (Hoyer) | |
| Julia Peterkin | 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary | | |
| Conrad Aiken | 1930 | Selected Poems | (Potter) | |
| Edna Ferber | 1925 | So Big | | |
| James A. Michener | 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | (Albert) | |
| Margaret Wilson | 1924 | The Able McLaughlins | | |
| Edith Wharton | 1921 | The Age of Innocence | | |
| Michael Chabon | 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1923 | The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver | (Nancy) | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1928 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | (Niven) | |
| Junot Díaz | 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | | |
| Herman Wouk | 1952 | The Caine Mutiny | | |
| Jean Stafford | 1970 | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford | | |
| Katherine Anne Porter | 1966 | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | | |
| Alice Walker | 1983 | The Color Purple | (Malsenior, Tallulah, Kate) | |
| William Styron | 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | (Clark) | |
| Edwin O'Connor | 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | | |
| Norman Mailer | 1980 | The Executioner's Song | (Kingsley) | |
| Bernard Malamud | 1967 | The Fixer | | |
| George Dillon | 1932 | The Flowering Stone | (Hill) | |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1932 | The Good Earth | (Sai, Sydenstricker, Zhenzhu) | |
| John Steinbeck | 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | (Ernst) | |
| Michael Cunningham | 1999 | The Hours | | |
| Shirley Ann Grau | 1965 | The Keepers of the House | | |
| Michael Shaara | 1975 | The Killer Angels | | |
| Edward P. Jones | 2004 | The Known World | (Paul) | |
| John Phillips Marquand | 1938 | The Late George Apley | | |
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | (Jerome) | |
| Colson Whitehead | 2020 | The Nickel Boys | | |
| Louise Erdrich | 2021 | The Night Watchman | (Karen) | |
| Zoe Akins | 1935 | The Old Maid | (Byrd) | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea | (Miller) | |
| Margaret Widdemer | 1919 | The Old Road to Paradise | | |
| Eudora Welty | 1973 | The Optimist's Daughter | | |
| Richard Powers | 2019 | The Overstory | | |
| William Faulkner | 1963 | The Reivers | (Cuthbert) | |
| Cormac McCarthy | 2007 | The Road | (Charles, Joseph) | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 1994 | The Shipping News | (Edna) | |
| Thornton Wilder | 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth | (Niven) | |
| Carol Shields | 1995 | The Stone Diaries | (Ann) | |
| T. S. Stribling | 1933 | The Store | (Thomas, Sigismund) | |
| John Cheever | 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever | (William) | |
| Conrad Richter | 1951 | The Town | (Michael) | |
| Robert Lewis Taylor | 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | | |
| Colson Whitehead | 2017 | The Underground Railroad | | |
| Theodore Roethke | 1954 | The Waking | (Huebner) | |
| A. B. Guthrie Jr. | 1950 | The Way West | (Alfred, Bertram) | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1939 | The Yearling | | |
| Richard Wilbur | 1957 | Things of This World | (Purdy) | |
| Phyllis McGinley | 1961 | Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades | | |
| Paul Harding | 2010 | Tinkers | | |
| Harper Lee | 1961 | To Kill a Mockingbird | (Nelle) | |
| Amy Lowell | 1926 | What's O'Clock | (Lawrence) | |
| Margaret Ayer Barnes | 1931 | Years of Grace | |