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Pulitzer On The Road. Prize Winners by YearPrize Winners by CategoryExplore Lists. Fiction. For distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of the modern classic...
- Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
Richard Russo - from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most...
- Charles Scribner's Sons
* Past Pulitzer Prize winner. Winners in Fiction. 2024....
- Random House
The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction. ... Winning Work....
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
The 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction. ... Winning Work....
- March, by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks is the author of the novel Year of Wonders...
- Tinkers, by Paul Harding
The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction. ... Winning Work....
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- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) Harper Lee. 981 votes. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature.
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Steinbeck. 370 votes. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work.
- The Age of Innocence (1921) Edith Wharton. 137 votes. The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London.
- All the Light We Cannot See (2015) Anthony Doerr. 300 votes. More All the Light We Cannot See. #72 of 154 on The Greatest American Novels. #6 of 40 on The Best Novels About World War 2.
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- 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie. A sequel to the novel The Big Sky, Dick Summers returns to the West to guide settlers on a journey across the frontier to Oregon.
- 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter. Sayward Luckett and her family of American pioneers struggle to till and shape their plot of wilderness into civilization in the 19th century.
- 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. A mutiny unfolds aboard a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific seas during World War II, highlighting the moral dilemmas of war.
- 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. A Cuban fisherman navigates the gulf stream, killing and ultimately losing a giant Marlin.
The honorees are chosen by Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, which is composed of judges appointed by the university. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for each year is listed below.
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Definition. Winners. 1910s to 1970s. 1980s to 2020s. Repeat winners. Authors with multiple nominations. Notes. References. Further reading. External links. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
