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John Updike by Katrin Hustedde "The Pulitzer Prizes were endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847 - 1911), publisher of the New York World, in a bequest to Columbia University and are awarded annually by the president of the university on recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board for work done during the preceding year. All prizes are $3,000 (originally $500) in each category (Journalism, Letters, and Music), except Meritorious Public Service for which a gold medal is given."
(from The World Almanac)

FICTION
For fiction in book form by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

2001 Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - NEW F CHAB
2000 Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies: Stories - F LAHA
1999 Michael Cunningham, The Hours - F CUNN, LARGE TYPE F CUNN, TC F CUNN
1998 Philip Roth, American Pastoral - F ROTH
1997 Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - F MILL
1996 Richard Ford, Independence Day - F FORD, VC 813.54 RI
1995 Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries - F SHIE, LARGE TYPE F SHIE
1994 E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News - F PROU, TC F PROU
1993 Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - F BUTL
1992 Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres - F SMIL, TC F SMIL
1991 John Updike, Rabbit at Rest - F UPDI
1990 Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - F HIJU, LIFE F HIJU
1989 Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons - F TYLE, VC F BREA
1988 Toni Morrison, Beloved - F MORR, LARGE TYPE F MORR, TC F MORR, VC F BELO, DVD F BELO
1987 Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis - F TAYL, LARGE TYPE F TAYL
1986 Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove - F MCMU, LIFE F MCMU
1985 Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs - F LURI
1984 William Kennedy, Ironweed - F KENN
1983 Alice Walker, The Color Purple - F WALK, LARGE TYPE F WALK, VC F COLO, DVD F COLO
1982 John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich - F UPDI
1981 John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces - F TOOL
1980 Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song - F MAIL
1979 John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever - SC CHEE
1978 James Alan McPerson, Elbow Room
1976 Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift - F BELL
1975 Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels - F SHAA
1973 Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter - F WELT
1972 Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose - F STEG
1970 Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
1969 N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn - F MOMA
1968 William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner - F STYR
1967 Bernard Malamud, The Fixer - F MALA
1966 Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories
1965 Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House - F GRAU
1963 William Faulkner, The Reivers: A Reminiscence - F FAUL
1962 Edwin O'Connor, The Edge of Sadness - F OCON
1961 Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - F LEE, YA F LEE, LARGE TYPE F LEE, TC F LEE, VC ENT TO, DVD F TO
1960 Allen Drury, Advise and Consent - F DRUR, VC F ADVI
1959 Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters - F TAYL
1958 James Agee, A Death in the Family - F AGEE
1956 MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville - F KANT
1955 William Faulkner, A Fable - F FAUL
1953 Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea - F HEMI, TC F HEMI
1952 Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny - F WOUK, 812.54 WO
1951 Conrad Richter, The Town - F RICH
1950 A. B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West
1949 James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor
1948 James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific - F MICH, VC F SOUT
1947 Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men - F WARR
1945 John Hersey, A Bell for Adano - LARGE TYPE F HERS
1944 Martin Flavin, Journey in the Dark
1943 Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth
1942 Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life - F GLAS
1940 John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath - F STEI, YA F STEI, TC F STEI, VC F GRAP
1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling - YA F RAWL, J RAWL, LARGE TYPE F RAWL, VC F YEAR
1938 John P. Marquand, The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir - F MARQ, LARGE TYPE F MARQ
1937 Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind - F MITC, LARGE TYPE F MITC, TC F MITC, VC F GONE, DVD F GONE
1936 Harold L. Davis, Honey in the Horn
1935 Josephine W. Johnson, Now in November - F JOHN
1934 Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom - F MILL
1933 T. S. Stribling, The Store - F STRI
1932 Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth - F BUCK, LARGE TYPE F BUCK
1931 Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace - F BARN
1930 Oliver LaFarge, Laughing Boy - F LAFA
1929 Julia M. Peterkin, Scarlet Sister Mary F PETE
1928 Thornton Wilder, Bridge of San Luis Rey - F WILD
1927 Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn [in A Bromfield Galaxy] - F BROM
1926 Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith - F LEWI (refused prize)
1925 Edna Ferber So Big - F FERB
1924 Margaret Wilson, The Able McLaughlins
1923 Willa Cather, One of Ours - F CATH
1922 Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams - F TARK, LARGE TYPE F TARK
1921 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - F WHAR, TC F WHAR, VC F AGE
1919 Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons - F TARK
1918 Ernest Poole, His Family

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