Statistics for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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The average score is 21 of 94

Answer Stats

Year	Author	Book	% Correct
1961	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	78%
1988	Toni Morrison	Beloved	72%
2007	Cormac McCarthy	The Road	62%
1983	Alice Walker	The Color Purple	60%
2014	Donna Tartt	The Goldfinch	60%
1940	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	53%
1953	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	53%
2017	Colson Whitehead	The Underground Railroad	53%
2003	Jeffrey Eugenides	Middlesex	52%
1937	Margaret Mitchell	Gone with the Wind	48%
1998	Philip Roth	American Pastoral	47%
1932	Pearl S. Buck	The Good Earth	47%
2015	Anthony Doerr	All the Light We Cannot See	45%
1994	E. Annie Proulx	The Shipping News	45%
2016	Viet Thanh Nguyen	The Sympathizer	43%
1981	John Kennedy Toole	A Confederacy of Dunces	42%
1991	John Updike	Rabbit at Rest	42%
2020	Colson Whitehead	The Nickel Boys	42%
2019	Richard Powers	The Overstory	40%
2018	Andrew Sean Greer	Less	37%
1947	Robert Penn Warren	All the King's Men	35%
1921	Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence	35%
2011	Jennifer Egan	A Visit from the Goon Squad	33%
2005	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead	33%
2000	Jhumpa Lahiri	Interpreter of Maladies	33%
2009	Elizabeth Strout	Olive Kitteridge	33%
1982	John Updike	Rabbit Is Rich	33%
1986	Larry McMurtry	Lonesome Dove	32%
1999	Michael Cunningham	The Hours	30%
2002	Richard Russo	Empire Falls	28%
2001	Michael Chabon	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	28%
2021	Louise Erdrich	The Night Watchman	27%
2006	Geraldine Brooks	March	25%
2008	Junot Díaz	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	25%
1992	Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres	23%
1975	Michael Shaara	The Killer Angels	22%
2013	Adam Johnson	The Orphan Master's Son	22%
1995	Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries	22%
2010	Paul Harding	Tinkers	22%
1928	Thornton Wilder	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	20%
1952	Herman Wouk	The Caine Mutiny	20%
1980	Norman Mailer	The Executioner's Song	20%
1967	Bernard Malamud	The Fixer	20%
2004	Edward P. Jones	The Known World	20%
1926	Sinclair Lewis	Arrowsmith	18%
1919	Booth Tarkington	The Magnificent Ambersons	18%
1955	William Faulkner	A Fable	17%
1943	Upton Sinclair	Dragon's Teeth	17%
1996	Richard Ford	Independence Day	17%
1958	James Agee	A Death in the Family	15%
1968	William Styron	The Confessions of Nat Turner	15%
1990	Oscar Hijuelos	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love	15%
1972	Wallace Stegner	Angle of Repose	13%
1969	N. Scott Momaday	House Made of Dawn	12%
1976	Saul Bellow	Humboldt's Gift	12%
1925	Edna Ferber	So Big	12%
1948	James A. Michener	Tales of the South Pacific	12%
1963	William Faulkner	The Reivers	12%
1939	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	The Yearling	12%
1993	Robert Olen Butler	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain	10%
1922	Booth Tarkington	Alice Adams	10%
1989	Anne Tyler	Breathing Lessons	10%
1973	Eudora Welty	The Optimist's Daughter	10%
1945	John Hersey	A Bell for Adano	8%
1918	Ernest Poole	His Family	8%
1984	William Kennedy	Ironweed	8%
1970	Jean Stafford	The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford	8%
1966	Katherine Anne Porter	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter	8%
1979	John Cheever	The Stories of John Cheever	8%
1960	Allen Drury	Advise and Consent	7%
1956	MacKinlay Kantor	Andersonville	7%
1987	Peter Taylor	A Summons to Memphis	5%
1978	James Alan McPherson	Elbow Room	5%
1985	Alison Lurie	Foreign Affairs	5%
1949	James Gould Cozzens	Guard of Honor	5%
1936	Harold L. Davis	Honey in the Horn	5%
1951	Conrad Richter	The Town	5%
1950	A.B. Guthrie, Jr.	The Way West	5%
1927	Louis Bromfield	Early Autumn	3%
1942	Ellen Glasgow	In This Our Life	3%
1944	Martin Flavin	Journey in the Dark	3%
1934	Caroline Miller	Lamb in His Bosom	3%
1930	Oliver La Farge	Laughing Boy	3%
1997	Steven Millhauser	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer	3%
1935	Josephine Winslow Johnson	Now in November	3%
1923	Willa Cather	One of Ours	3%
1929	Julia Peterkin	Scarlet Sister Mary	3%
1924	Margaret Wilson	The Able McLaughlins	3%
1962	Edwin O'Connor	The Edge of Sadness	3%
1965	Shirley Ann Grau	The Keepers of the House	3%
1938	John Phillips Marquand	The Late George Apley	3%
1933	Thomas Sigismund Stribling	The Store	3%
1959	Robert Lewis Taylor	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters	3%
1931	Margaret Ayer Barnes	Years of Grace	3%