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The Pulitzer Prize
Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, this award honors books which address the largest themes in life, the raw passion and tragedy of the human condition. Learn more about the man behind the prize, Joseph Pulitzer
2002 Pulitzer Prize The Winners
Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Biography/Autobiography
Pulitzer Prize Winners Letters, Drama & Music 2002
Fiction Empire Falls by Richard Russo | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette This is excellent and very deserving of the Pulitzer. For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).
Non-Fiction Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter | Hardcover | Paperback | Microsoft e-book | Adobe e-book For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).
Poetry Practical Gods by Carl Dennis | Paperback, a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).
Biography John Adams by David McCullough
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McCullough was previously awarded the Pulitzer in 1993 for his work
Truman the Biography of President Harry S. Truman
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Drama Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks | Paperback
History The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Audio CD | Microsoft e-book | Adobe e-book
Music For distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500). Ice Field by Henry Brant
A special Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Dr. Seuss in 1984.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
2000 Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998
American Pastoral by Philip Roth |
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Philip Roth:
2001 PEN/ Faulkner Awards for Fiction for
The Human Stain |
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This was Roth's second Pen Faulkner Award. He won in 1994 for
Operation Shylock |
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Goodbye, Columbus won the National Book Award in 1960
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National Book Award winner 1995 for Sabbath's Theater
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He is only the second author to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner
award twice. In 1984, John Edgar Wideman took home the award for Sent
for You Yesterday |
Hardcover Wideman was honored again in 1991 for
Philadelphia Fire |
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1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Stephen Millhauser
1996
Independence Day by Richard Ford, this title also won the
PEN/Faulkner Award 1996. Wonderful
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1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields | Paperback | Library Binding
1994
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx |
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1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley | DVD | VHS | Paperback | Hardcover | Audio Cassette
1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette see also 1982
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos
1989 Anne Tyler for Breathing Lessons | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette
1988 Beloved Toni Morrison | DVD | VHS | Hardcover | Paperback
1987 A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor
1986 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
1985 Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy | Paperback
1983 The Color Purple, Alice Walker | DVD | VHS | Hardcover | Paperback
1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette see also 1991
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy O’Toole
1980 The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
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 Paperback
1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter
1965 The Keepers of the House Shirley Ann Grau
1964 No Award
1963 The Reivers William Faulkner, two time winner of both the National Book Award and The Pulitzer Prize for Literature and, also, chosen as a Nobel Laureate. He has had the honor of an award, The PEN/Faulkner, being named for him.
1962 The Edge of Sadness Edwin O’Connor
1961
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
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1960 Advise and Consent Allen Drury
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Robert Lewis Taylor
1958 A Death in the Family James Agee
1957 No Award
1956 Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor
1955 A Fable William Faulkner, two time winner of both the National Book Award and The Pulitzer Prize for Literature and, also, chosen as a Nobel Laureate. He has had the honor of an award, The PEN/Faulkner, being named for him.
1954 No Award
1953 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
1952
The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk |
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1951 The Town Conrad Richter
1950 The Way West A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1949 Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens
1948 Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener
Before 1948 The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was referred to as Novel
1947 All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren
1946 No Award
1945 A Bell for Adano John Hersey
1944 Journey in the Dark Martin Flavin
1943 Dragon’s Teeth Upton Sinclair
1942 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow
1941 No Award
1940
Grapes of Wrath,
John Steinbeck |
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1939 The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938 The Late George Apley John Phillips Marquand
1937
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, Best Picture 1939
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1936 Honey in the Horn Harold L. Davis
1935 Now in November Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934 Lamb in His Bosom Caroline Miller
1933 The Store T. S. Stribling
1932 The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck | VHS | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1931 Years of Grace Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930 Laughing Boy Oliver La Farge
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary Julia Peterkin
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
1927 Early Autumn Louis Bromfield
1926 Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis Paperback
1925 So Big Edna Ferber
1924 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson
1923 One of Ours Willa Cather
1922 Alice Adams Booth Tarkington
1921 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
1920 No Award
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington
1918 His Family Ernest Poole
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