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Pulitzer
Prize winners
The Pulitzer Prizes were created
in 1904 when Joseph Pulitzer, the Hungarian-born newspaper baron,
bestowed a $2,000,000 endowment upon Columbia University for the
establishment of a School of Journalism and for the administration
of "prizes or scholarships for the encouragement of public, service,
public morals, American literature, and the advancement of education."
Originally, Pulitzer specified four awards in journalism, four in
letters and drama, one for education, and four traveling scholarships.
In letters, prizes were to go to an American novel, an original
American play performed in New York, a book on the history of the
United States, an American biography, and a history of public service
by the press. However, the Pulitzer Prize advisory board was given
discretion to change the set of awards over time, and since the
inception of the prizes in 1917, the board has increased the number
of awards to 21 and introducted poetry, music, and photography as
subjects.
The prizes are awarded each April, by the president of Columbia
University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize board.
--adapted from the Pulitzer Prize Board web site 8/99.
Click on any title for more information or to order
I. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1917 - No award
1918 - Poole, Ernest. His
Family.
1919 - Tarkington, Booth. The
Magnificent Ambersons.
1920 - No award
1921 - Wharton, Edith. The
Age of Innocence.
1922 - Tarkington, Booth. Alice
Adams.
1923 - Cather, Willa. One
of Ours.
1924 - Wilson, Margaret. The
Able McLaughlins.
1925 - Ferber, Edna. So
Big.
1926 - Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith.
(refused prize)
1927 - Bromfield, Louis. Early
Autumn.
1928 - Wilder, Thornton. Bridge
of San Luis Rey.
1929 - Peterkin, Julia M.. Scarlet
Sister Mary.
1930 - LaFarge, Oliver. Laughing
Boy.
1931 - Barnes, Margaret Ayer. Years
of Grace.
1932 - Buck, Pearl S.. The
Good Earth.
1933 - Stribling, T. S.. The
Store.
1934 - Miller, Caroline. Lamb
in His Bosom.
1935 - Johnson, Josephine W.. Now
in November.
1936 - Davis, Harold L.. Honey
in the Horn.
1937 - Mitchell, Margaret. Gone
with the Wind.
1938 - Marquand, John P.. The
Late George Apley.
1939 - Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The
Yearling.
1940 - Steinbeck, John. The
Grapes of Wrath.
1941 - No award
1942 - Glasgow, Ellen. In
This Our Life.
1943 - Sinclair, Upton. Dragon's
Teeth.
1944 - Flavin, Martin. Journey
in the Dark.
1945 - Hersey, John. A
Bell for Adano.
1946 - No award
1947 - Warren, Robert Penn. All
the King's Men.
1948 - Michener, James A.. Tales
of the South.
1949 - Cozzens, James Gould. Guard
of Honor.
1950 - Jr., A. B. Guthrie,. The
Way West.
1951 - Richter, Conrad. The
Town.
1952 - Wouk, Herman. The
Caine Mutiny.
1953 - Hemingway, Ernest. The
Old Man and the Sea.
1954 - No award
1955 - Faulkner, William. A
Fable.
1956 - Kantor, MacKinlay. Andersonville.
1957 - No award
1958 - Agee, James. A
Death in the Family.
1959 - Taylor, Robert Lewis. The
Travels of Jaimie.
1960 - Drury, Allen. Advise
and Consent.
1961 - Lee, Harper. To
Kill a Mockingbird.
1962 - O'Connor, Edwin. The
Edge of Sadness.
1963 - Faulkner, William. The
Reivers.
1964 - No award
1965 - Grau, Shirley Ann. The
Keepers of the.
1966 - Porter, Katherine Anne. Collected
Stories of.
1967 - Malamud, Bernard. The
Fixer.
1968 - Styron, William. The
Confessions of Nat Taylor.
1969 - Momaday, N. Scott. House
Made of Dawn.
1970 - Stafford, Jean. Collected
Stories.
1971 - No award
1972 - Stegne, Wallace. Angle
of Repose.
1973 - Welty, Eudora. The
Optimist's Daughter.
1974 - No award
1975 - Shaara, Michael. The
Killer Angels.
1976 - Bellow, Saul. Humboldt's
Gift.
1977 - No award
1978 - McPherson, James Alan. Elbow
Room.
1979 - Cheever, John. The
Stories of John Cheever.
1980 - Mailer, Norman. The
Executioner's Song.
1981 - Toole, John Kennedy. A
Confederacy of Dunces.
1982 - Updike, John. Rabbit
is Rich.
1983 - Walker, Alice. The
Color Purple.
1984 - Kennedy, William. Ironweed.
1985 - Lurie, Alison. Foreign
Affairs.
1986 - McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome
Dove.
1987 - Taylor, Peter. A
Summons to Memphis.
1988 - Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
1989 - Tyler, Anne. Breathing
Lessons.
1990 - Hijuelos, Oscar. The
Mambo Kings Play.
1991 - Updike, John. Rabbit
at Rest.
1992 - Smiley, Jane. A
Thousand Acres.
1993 - Butler, Robert Olen. A
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories.
1994 - Proulx, E. Annie. The
Shipping News.
1995 - Shields, Carol. The
Stone Diaries.
1996 - Ford, Richard. Independence
Day.
1997 - Millhauser, Steven. Martin
Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer.
1998 - Roth, Philip. American
Pastoral.
1999 - Cunningham, Michael. The
Hours.
II. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1918 - Teasdale, Sara. Love
Songs.
1919 - Widdemer, Margaret. Old
Road to Paradise.
1919 - Sandburg, Carl. Corn
Huskers.
1922 - Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Collected
Poems.
1923 - Millay, Edna St. Vincent. The
Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets
in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany..
1924 - Frost, Robert. New
Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
1925 - Robinson, Edwin Arlington. The
Man Who Died Twice.
1926 - Lowell, Amy. What's
O'Clock.
1927 - Speyer, Leonora. Fiddlers
Farewell.
1928 - Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Tristram.
1929 - Benet, Stephen Vincent. John
Browns Body.
1930 - Aiken, Conrad. Selected
Poems.
1931 - Frost, Robert. Collected
Poems.
1932 - Dillon, George. The
Flowering Stone.
1933 - Macleish, Archibald. Conquistador.
1934 - Hillyer, Robert. Collected
Verse.
1935 - Wurdemann, Audrey. Bright
Ambush.
1936 - Coffin, Robert P. Tristram. Strange
Holiness.
1937 - Frost, Robert. A
Further Range.
1938 - Zaturenska, Marya. Cold
Morning Sky.
1939 - Fletcher, John Gould. Selected
Poems.
1940 - Doren, Mark Van. Collected
Poems.
1941 - Bacon, Leonard. Sunderland
Capture.
1942 - Benet, William Rose. The
Dust Which Is God.
1943 - Frost, Robert. A
Witness Tree.
1944 - Benet, Stephen Vincent. Western
Star.
1945 - Shapiro, Karl. V-Letter
and Other Poems.
1946 - No Award
1947 - Lowell, Robert. Lord
Weary's Castle.
1948 - Auden, W. H.. The
Age of Anxiety.
1949 - Viereck, Peter. Terror
and Decorum.
1950 - Brooks, Gwendolyn. Annie
Allen.
1951 - Sandburg, Carl. Complete
Poems.
1952 - Moore, Marianne. Collected
Poems.
1953 - MacLeish, Archibald. Collected
Poems 1917-1952.
1954 - Roethke, Theodore. The
Waking.
1955 - Stevens, Wallace. Collected
Poems.
1956 - Bishop, Elizabeth. Poems
- North & South.
1957 - Wilbur, Richard. Things
of This World.
1958 - Warren, Robert Penn. Promises:
Poems 1954-1956.
1959 - Kunitz, Stanley. Selected
Poems 1928-1958.
1960 - Snodgrass, W. D.. Heart's
Needle.
1961 - McGinley, Phyllis. Times
Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades.
1962 - Dugan, Alan. Poems.
1963 - Williams, William Carlos. Pictures
from Breughel.
1964 - Simpson, Louis. At
The End Of The Open Road.
1965 - Berryman, John. 77
Dream Songs.
1966 - Eberhart, Richard. Selected
Poems.
1967 - Sexton, Anne. Live
or Die.
1968 - Hecht, Anthony. The
Hard Hours.
1969 - Oppen, George. Of
Being Numerous.
1970 - Howard, Richard. Untitled
Subjects.
1971 - Merwin, William S.. The
Carrier of Ladders.
1972 - Wright, James. Collected
Poems.
1973 - Kumin, Maxine. Up
Country.
1974 - Lowell, Robert. The
Dolphin.
1975 - Snyder, Gary. Turtle
Island.
1976 - Ashbery, John. Self-Portrait
in a Convex Mirror.
1977 - Merrill, James. Divine
Comedies.
1978 - Nemerov, Howard. Collected
Poems.
1979 - Warren, Robert Penn. Now
and Then.
1980 - Justice, Donald. Selected
Poems.
1981 - Schuyler, James. The
Morning of the Poem.
1982 - Plath, Sylvia.
The Collected Poems.
1983 - Kinnell, Galway. Selected
Poems.
1984 - Oliver, Mary. American
Primitive.
1985 - Kizer, Carolyn. Yin.
1986 - Taylor, Henry. The
Flying Change.
1987 - Dove, Rita. Thomas
and Beulah.
1988 - Meredith, William. Partial
Accounts.
1989 - Wilbur, Richard. New
and Collected Poems.
1990 - Simic, Charles. The
World Doesn't End.
1991 - Duyn, Mona Van. Near
Changes.
1992 - Tate, James.
Selected Poems.
1993 - Gluck, Louise.
The Wild Iris.
1994 - Komunyakaa, Yusef. Neon
Vernacular: New and Selected Poems.
1995 - Levine, Philip.
The Simple Truth.
1996 - Graham, Jorie.
The Dream of the Unified Field.
1997 - Mueller, Lisel.
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems.
1998 - Wright, Charles. Black
Zodiac.
1999 - Strand, Mark. Blizzard
of One.
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