Pulitzer Prize Winner List:- Yearbook/work Author

1918 His Family Ernest Poole 

1921 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 

1926 Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis (declined the prize) 

1932 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 

1940 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 

1941 No Award was Given The fiction jury had recommended the 

1941 award go to Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Although the Pulitzer Board initially agreed with that judgment, the president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel 
offensive, and no award was given that year. 

1942 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 

1943 Dragon’s Teeth Upton Sinclair 

1947 All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren 

1953 The Old Man and the Sea Earnest Hemingway

1955 A Fable William Faulkner 

1961 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 

1963 The Reivers William Faulkner (posthumously) 

1978 Elbow Room James McPharson 

1980 The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer 

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy 

1983 The Color Purple Alice Walker 

1988 Beloved Tony Morrison 

1998 American Pastoral Phillip Roth 

2000 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 

2006 March Geraldine Brooks 

2015 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 

2016 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 

2017 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 

2018 Less Andrew Sean Greer 

2019 The Overstory Richard Powers 

2020 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead 

2021 The Night Watchman Louis Edrich 

2022 The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family Joshua Cohen 

2023 Trust Hernan Diaz & Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingslover

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