Whittier Public Library

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Book Title	Author	Date
Tinkers	Paul Harding	2010
Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout	2009
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Diaz	2008
The Road	Cormac McCarthy	2007
March	Geraldine Brooks	2006
Gilead	Marilynne Robinson	2005
The Known World	Edward P. Jones	2004
Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides	2003
Empire Falls	Richard Russo	2002
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	Michael Chabon	2001
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	2000
The Hours	Michael Cunningham	1999
American Pastoral	Philip Roth	1998
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer	Steven Millhauser	1997
Independence Day	Richard Ford	1996
The Stone Diaries	Carole Shields	1995
The Shipping News	E. Annie Proulx	1994
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain	Robert Olen Butler	1993
A Thousand Acres	Jane Smiley	1992
Rabbit at Rest	John Updike	1991
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love	Oscar Hijuelos	1990
Breathing Lessons	Anne Tyler	1989
Beloved	Toni Morrison	1988
A Summons to Memphis	Peter Taylor	1987
Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry	1986
Foreign Affairs	Alison Lurie	1985
Ironweed	William Kennedy	1984
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	1983
Rabbit is Rich	John Updike	1982
A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	1981
The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer	1980
The Stories of John Cheever	John Cheever	1979
Elbow Room	James Alan McPherson	1978
no award given		1977
Humboldt's Gift	Saul Bellow	1976
The Killer Angels	Michael Shaara	1975
no award given		1974
The Optimist's Daughter	Eudora Welty	1973
Angle of Repose	Wallace Stegner	1972
no award given		1971
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford	Jean Stafford	1970
House Made of Dawn	N. Scott Momaday	1969
The Confessions of Nat Turner	William Styron	1968
The Fixer	Bernard Malamud	1967
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter	Katherine Anne Porter	1966
The Keepers of the House	Shirley Ann Grau	1965
no award given		1964
The Reivers	William Faulkner	1963
The Edge of Sadness	Edwin O'Connor	1962
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	1961
Advise and Consent	Allen Drury	1960
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters	Robert Lewis Taylor	1959
A Death in the Family	James Agee	1958
no award given		1957
Andersonville	MacKinlay Kantor	1956
A Fable	William Faulkner	1955
no award given		1954
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	1953
The Caine Mutiny	Herman Wouk	1952
The Town	Conrad Richter	1951
The Way West	A. B. Guthrie, Jr.	1950
Guard of Honor	James Gould Cozzens	1949
Tales of the South Pacific	James A. Michener	1948