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Pulitzer Prize Winning Authors (Fiction)

Guess the author of each book that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Year = year of the ceremony honoring the previous year's works
No prize was awarded in 1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1971, 1974, 1977, or 2012
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Year
Author
Book
1918
Ernest Poole
His Family
1919
Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons
1921
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
1922
Booth Tarkington
Alice Adams
1923
Willa Cather
One of Ours
1924
Margaret Wilson
The Able McLaughlins
1925
Edna Ferber
So Big
1926
Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith
1927
Louis Bromfield
Early Autumn
1928
Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1929
Julia Peterkin
Scarlet Sister Mary
1930
Oliver La Farge
Laughing Boy
1931
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Years of Grace
1932
Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth
1933
T. S. Stribling
The Store
1934
Caroline Miller
Lamb in His Bosom
1935
Josephine Winslow Johnson
Now in November
1936
Harold L. Davis
Honey in the Horn
1937
Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind
1938
John Phillips Marquand
The Late George Apley
1939
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling
1940
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
1942
Ellen Glasgow
In This Our Life
1943
Upton Sinclair
Dragon's Teeth
1944
Martin Flavin
Journey in the Dark
1945
John Hersey
A Bell for Adano
1947
Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men
1948
James A. Michener
Tales of the South Pacific
1949
James Gould Cozzens
Guard of Honor
1950
A. B. Guthrie
The Way West
1951
Conrad Richter
The Town
1952
Herman Wouk
The Caine Mutiny
1953
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
1955
William Faulkner
A Fable
1956
MacKinlay Kantor
Andersonville
1958
James Agee
A Death in the Family
1959
Robert Lewis Taylor
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1960
Allen Drury
Advise and Consent
1961
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
Edwin O'Connor
The Edge of Sadness
1963
William Faulkner
The Reivers
1965
Shirley Ann Grau
The Keepers of the House
1966
Katherine Anne Porter
Collected Stories
1967
Bernard Malamud
The Fixer
1968
William Styron
The Confessions of Nat Turner
1969
N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn
1970
Jean Stafford
Collected Stories
1972
Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose
1973
Eudora Welty
The Optimist's Daughter
Year
Author
Book
1975
Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels
1976
Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
1978
James Alan McPherson
Elbow Room
1979
John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
1980
Norman Mailer
The Executioner's Song
1981
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
1982
John Updike
Rabbit is Rich
1983
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
1984
William Kennedy
Ironweed
1985
Alison Lurie
Foreign Affairs
1986
Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove
1987
Peter Taylor
A Summons to Memphis
1988
Toni Morrison
Beloved
1989
Anne Tyler
Breathing Lessons
1990
Oscar Hijuelos
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1991
John Updike
Rabbit At Rest
1992
Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres
1993
Robert Olen Butler
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1994
E. Annie Proulx
The Shipping News
1995
Carol Shields
The Stone Diaries
1996
Richard Ford
Independence Day
1997
Steven Millhauser
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
1998
Philip Roth
American Pastoral
1999
Michael Cunningham
The Hours
2000
Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
2001
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2002
Richard Russo
Empire Falls
2003
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
2004
Edward P. Jones
The Known World
2005
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2006
Geraldine Brooks
March
2007
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
2008
Junot Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2009
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
2010
Paul Harding
Tinkers
2011
Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad
2013
Adam Johnson
The Orphan Master's Son
2014
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
2015
Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See
2016
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer
2017
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
2018
Andrew Sean Greer
Less
2019
Richard Powers
The Overstory
2020
Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys
2021
Louise Erdrich
The Night Watchman
2022
Joshua Cohen
The Netanyahus
2023 (tie)
Hernan Diaz
Trust
2023 (tie)
Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead
2024
Jayne Anne Phillips
Night Watch
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