Prize Winners

Some collectors center their collecting on categories of major prize winners: the Booker, Caldecott, Edgar, Hugo, National Book, Nebula, Newbery, PEN/Faulkner, Pulitzer prizes, or on lists of high spots compiled by knowledgeable authors, such as the Connolly 100, Queen's Quorom, and on and on. The following are some of these award winners, the years the awards were won, and the books for which they won. A more comprehensive list of literary awards, in some cases with the runners-up or short-listed authors, was published by Charlene Coffield in 1998. The title is Notable Literary Awards for Fiction and is available from her at 1401 Emerald Circel, Southlake, TX 76092. In addition, the American Library Association Web site (www.ala.org) has links to many of the award sites. Also see http://www.bookwire.com.

Note that we have listed the books in the year of their award, although in most cases the prizes were awarded the year following their publication (i.e., the 1992 Hugo Award is for the Best Novel Published in 1991).

You can scroll down to view the lists of awards, or click on a link below to "jump" to a particular awards list.

The [Man] Booker Prize
The Caldecott Medal
The Edgar for Best (Mystery) Novel
The Edgar for Best First (Mystery) Novel
The Hugo Award for Science Fiction Achievement
National Book Award
The Nebula Award
The Newbery Medal
PEN/Faulkner Award
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction
Pulitzer Prize, Drama
Pulitzer Prize, Poetry
Pulitzer Prize, History

The Man Booker Prize

Formerly the Booker Prize, the Man Booker is awarded annually for the best literature in the British Commonwealth of Nations. To visit their site go to www.themanbookerprize.com

 

2017: George Saunders. LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

2016: Paul Beatty. THE SELLOUT

2015: Marlon James. A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS

2014: Richard Flanagan. THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH

2013: Eleanor Catton. THE LUMINARIES

2012: Hilary Mantel. BRING UP THE BODIES

2011: Julian Barnes. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

2010: Howard Jacobson. THE FINKLER QUESTION

2009: Hilary Mantel. WOLF HALL

2008: Adiga Aravind. THE WHITE TIGER

2007: Anne Enright. THE GATHERING

2006: Kiran Desai. THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS

2005: John Banville. THE SEA

2004: Alan Hollinghurst THE LINE OF BEAUTY

2003: DBC Pierre. VERNON GOD LITTLE

2002: Yann Martel. LIFE OF PI

2001: Peter Carey. TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG

2000: Margaret Atwood. THE BLIND ASSASSIN

1999: J. M. Coetzee. DISGRACE

1998: Ian McEwan. AMSTERDAM

1997: Arundhati Roy. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

1996: Graham Swift. LAST ORDER

1995: Pat Barker. THE GHOST ROAD

1994: James Kelman. HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE

1993: Roddy Doyle. PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA

1992 (tie):

  • Michael Ondaatje. THE ENGLISH PATIENT
  • Barry Unsworth. SACRED HUNGER

1991: Ben Okri. THE FAMISHED ROAD

1990: A. S. Byatt. POSSESSION

1989: Kazuo Ishiguro. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

1988: Peter Carey. OSCAR AND LUCINDA

1987: Penelope Lively. MOON TIGER

1986: Kingsley Amis. THE OLD DEVILS

1985: Keri Hulme. THE BONE PEOPLE

1984: Anita Brookner. HOTEL DU LAC

1983: J. M. Coetzee. LIFE AND TIMES OF THOMAS K

1982: Thomas Keneally. SCHINDLER’S ARK

1981: Salman Rushdie. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

1980: William Golding. RITES OF PASSAGE

1979: Penelope Fitzgerald. OFFSHORE

1978: Iris Murdoch. THE SEA, THE SEA

1977: Paul Scott. STAYING ON

1976: David Storey. SAVILLE

1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. HEAT AND DUST

1974 (tie):

  • Nadine Gordimer. THE CONSERVATIONIST
  • Stanley Middleton. HOLIDAY

1973: J. G. Farrell. SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR

1972: John Berger. G

1971: V. S. Naipaul. IN A FREE STATE

1970: Bernice Rubens. THE ELECTED MEMBER

1969: P. H. Newby. SOMETHING TO ANSWER FOR

The Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of the American Library Association) to the artist of the most distinguished picture book for children. The award was named in honor of Randolph Caldecott, a nineteenth-century illustrator whose work is still delighting children. To visit their site go to www.ala.org

2018: Matthew Cordell. WOLF IN THE SNOW

2017: Javaka Steptoe. RADIANT CHILD

2016: Lindsay Mattick. FINDING WINNIE
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall

2015: Dan Santat. THE ADVENTURES OF BEEKLE

2014: Brian Floca. LOCOMOTIVE

2013: Jon Klassen. THIS IS NOT MY HAT

2012: Chris Raschka. A BALL FOR DAISY

2011: Philip C. Stead. A SICK DAY FOR AMOS McGEE
Illustrated by Erin E. Stead

2010: Jerry Pinkney. THE LION & THE MOUSE

2009: Susan Marie Swanson. THE HOUSE IN THE NIGHT
Illustrated by Beth Krommes

2008: Brian Selznick. THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET

2007: David Wiesner. FLOTSAM

2006: Norton Juster. THE HELLO, GOODBYE WINDOW
Illustrated by Chris Raschka

2005: Kevin Henkes. KITTEN’S FIRST FULL MOON

2004: Mordicai Gerstein. THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS

2003: Eric Rohmann. MY FRIEND RABBIT

2002: David Wiesner. THE THREE PIGS

2001: Judith St. George. SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT?
Illustrated by David Small

2000: Simms Taback. JOSEPH HAD A LITTLE OVERCOAT

1999: Jacqueline Briggs Martin. SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY
Illustrated by Mary Azarian

1998: Paul O. Zelinsky. RAPUNZEL

1997: David Wisniewski. GOLEM

1996: Peggy Rathmann. OFFICER BUCKLE AND GLORIA

1995: Eve Bunting. SMOKY NIGHT.
Illustrated by David Diaz

1994: Allen Say. GRANDFATHER'S JOURNEY

1993: Emily McCully. MIRETTE ON HIGH WIRE

1992: David Weisner. TUESDAY

1991: David Macauley. BLACK AND WHITE

1990: Ed Young. LON PO PO

1989: Stephen Gammell. SONG & DANCE MAN

1988: Jane Yolen. OWL MOON.
Illustrated by John Schoenherr

1987: Arthur Yorinks. HEY, AL
Illustrated by Richard Egielski

1986: Chris Van Allsburg. POLAR EXPRESS

1985: Margaret Hodges. SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

1984: Alice and Martin Provenson. THE GLORIOUS FLIGHT: ACROSS THE CHANNEL WITH LOUIS BLERIOT

1983: Blaise Cendrar. SHADOW
Illustrated by Marcia Brown

1982: Chris Van Allsburg. JUMANJI

1981: Arnold Lobel. FABLES

1980: Donald Hall. OX-CART MAN

1979: Paul Goble. THE GIRL WHO LOVED HORSES

1978: Peter Spier. NOAH'S ARK

1977: Margaret Musgrove. ASHANTI TO ZULU
Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

1976: Verna Aardema. WHY MOSQUITOES BUZZ IN PEOPLE'S EARS
Illustrated by Leo Dillon

1975: Gerald McDermott. ARROW TO THE SUN

1974: Harve Zemach. DUFFY & THE DEVIL
Illustrated by Margot Zemach

1973: Ariene Mosel. THE FUNNY LITTLE WOMAN
Illustrated by Blair Lent

1972: Nonny Hogrogian. ONE FINE DAY

1971: Gail E. Haley. A STORY - A STORY

1970: William Steig. SYLVESTER AND THE MAGIC PEBBLE

1969: Arthur Ransome. THE FOOL OF THE WORLD AND THE FLYING SHIP
Illustrated by Uri Schulevitz

1968: Barbara Emberley. DRUMMER HOFF
Illustrated by Ed Emberley

1967: Evaline Ness. SAM, BANGS & MOONSHINE

1966: Sorche Nic Leodhas. ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE
Illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian

1965: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. MAY I BRING A FRIEND?
Illustrated by Beni Montresor

1964: Maurice Sendak. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

1963: Ezra Jack Keats. THE SNOWY DAY

1962: Marcia Brown. ONCE A MOUSE ...

1961: Ruth Robbins. BABOUSHKA AND THE THREE KINGS
Illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov

1960: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida. NINE DAYS TO CHRISTMAS
Illustrated by Marie Hall Ets

1959: CHANTICLEER AND THE FOX. Adapted from Chaucer and
illustrated by Barbara Cooney

1958: Robert McCloskey. TIME OF WONDER

1957: Janice May Udry. A TREE IS NICE
Illustrated by Marc Simont

1956: John Langstaff. FROG WENT A-COURTIN'
Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky

1955: Charles Perrault (transl.). CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.
Illustrated by Marcia Brown

1954: Ludwig Bemelmans. MADELINE'S RESCUE

1953: Lynd Ward. THE BIGGEST BEAR

1952: Will (Lipkind). FINDERS KEEPERS
Illustrated by Nicolas (Mordvinoff)

1951: Katherine Milhous. THE EGG TREE

1950: Leo Politi. SONG OF THE SWALLOWS

1949: Berta and Elmer Hader. THE BIG SNOW

1948: Alvin Tresselt. WHITE SNOW, BRIGHT SNOW
Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin

1947: Golden MacDonald. THE LITTLE ISLAND
Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

1946: THE ROOSTER CROWS ... (Traditional Mother Goose)
Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham

1945: Rachel Field. PRAYER FOR A CHILD
Illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones

1944: James Thurber. MANY MOONS
Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin

1943: Virginia Lee Burton. THE LITTLE HOUSE

1942: Robert McCloskey. MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS

1941: Robert Lawson. THEY WERE STRONG AND GOOD

1940: Ingri and Edgar Parin. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

1939: Thomas Handforth. MEI LI

1938: Helen Dean Fish. ANIMALS OF THE BIBLE
Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop

The Edgar

The Edgar is an annual award named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. To visit their site go to www.mysterywriters.org

The Edgar for Best (Mystery) Novel

2017: Noah Hawley. BEFORE THE FALL

2016: Lori Roy. LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS

2015: Stephen King. MR. MERCEDES

2014: William Kent Krueger. ORDINARY GRACE

2013: Dennis Lehane. LIVE BY NIGHT

2012: Mo Hayder. GONE

2011: Steve Hamilton. THE LOCK ARTIST

2010: John Hart. THE LAST CHILD

2009: C. J. Box BLUE HEAVEN

2008: John Hart. DOWN RIVER

2007: Jason Goodwin. THE JANISARRY TREE

2006: Jess Walter. CITIZEN VINCE

2005: T. Jefferson Parker. CALIFORNIA GIRL

2004: Ian Rankin. RESURRECTION MEN

2003: S. J. Rozan. WINTER AND NIGHT

2002: T. Jefferson Parker. SILENT JOE

2001: Joe R. Lansdale. THE BOTTOMS

2000: Jan Burke. BONES

1999: Robert Clark. MR. WHITE’S CONFESSION

1998: James Lee Burke. CIMARRON ROSE

1997: Thomas H. Cook. THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR

1996: Dick Francis. COME TO GRIEF

1995: Mary Willis Walker. THE RED SCREAM

1994: Minette Walters. THE SCULPTRESS

1993: Margaret Maron. BOOTLEGGER’S DAUGHTER

1992: Lawrence Block. A DANCE AT THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE

1991: Julie Smith. NEW ORLEANS MOURNING

1990: James Lee Burke. BLACK CHERRY BLUES

1989: Stuart M. Kaminsky. A COLD RED SUNRISE

1988: Aaron Elkins. OLD BONES

1987: Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell). DARK-ADAPTED EYE

1986: L. R. Wright. THE SUSPECT

1985: Ross Thomas. BRIARPATCH

1984: Elmore Leonard. LA BRAVA

1983: Rick Boyer. BILLINGSGATE SHOAL

1982: William Bayer. PEREGRINE

1981: Dick Francis. WHIP HAND

1980: Arthur Maling. THE RHEINGOLD ROUTE

1979: Ken Follett. THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE

1978: William Hallahan. CATCH ME KILL ME

1977: Robert B. Parker. PROMISED LAND

1976: Brian Garfield. HOPSCOTCH

1975: Jon Cleary. PETER’S PENCE

1974: Tony Hillerman. DANCE HALL OF THE DEAD

1973: Warren Kiefer. THE LINGALA CODE

1972: Frederick Forsyth. THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

1971: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN

1970: Dick Francis. FORFEIT

1969: Jeffrey Hudson. A CASE OF NEED

1968: Donald E. Westlake. GOD SAVE THE MARK

1967: Nicolas Freeling. KING OF THE RAINY COUNTRY

1966: Adam Hall. THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM

1965: John le Carré. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

1964: Eric Ambler. THE LIGHT OF DAY

1963: Ellis Peters. DEATH AND THE JOYFUL WOMAN

1962: J. J. Marric. GIDEON’S FIRE

1961: Julian Symons. THE PROGRESS OF A CRIME

1960: Celia Fremlin. THE HOURS BEFORE DAWN

1959: Stanley Ellin. THE EIGHTH CIRCLE

1958: Ed Lacy. ROOM TO SWING

1957: Charlotte Armstrong. A DRAM OF POISON

1956: Margaret Millar. BEAST IN VIEW

1955: Raymond Chandler. THE LONG GOODBYE

1954: Charlotte Jay. BEAT NOT THE BONES


The Edgar for Best First (Mystery) Novel

2017: Flynn Berry. UNDER THE HARROW

2016: Viet Thanh Nguyen. THE SYMPATHIZER

2015: Tom Bouman. DRY BONES IN THE VALLEY

2014: Jason Matthews. RED SPARROW

2013: Chris Pavone. THE EXPATS

2012: Lori Roy. BENT ROAD

2011: Bruce DeSilva. ROGUE ISLAND

2010: Stefanie Pintoff. IN THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM

2009: Francie Lin. THE FOREIGNER

2008: Tana French. IN THE WOODS

2007: Alex Berenson. THE FAITHFUL SPY

2006: Theresa Schwegel. OFFICER DOWN

2005: Don Lee. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

2004: Rebecca Pawel. DEATH OF A NATIONALIST

2003: Jonathon King. THE BLUE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT

2002: David Ellis. LINE OF VISION

2001: David Liss. CONSPIRACY OF PAPER

2000: Eliot Pattison. THE SKULL MANTRA

1999: Steve Hamilton. A COLD DAY IN PARADISE

1998: Joseph Kanon. LOS ALAMOS

1997: John Morgan Wilson. SIMPLE JUSTICE

1996: David Housewright. PENANCE

1995: George Dawes Green. THE CAVEMAN’S VALENTINE

1994: Laurie King. A GRAVE TALENT

1993: Michael Connelly. THE BLACK ECHO

1992: Peter Blauner. SLOW MOTION RIOT

1991: Patricia Daniels Cornwell. POSTMORTEM

1990: Susan Wolfe. THE LAST BILLABLE HOUR

1989: David Stout. CAROLINA SKELETONS

1988: Deidre Laiken. DEATH AMONG STRANGERS

1987: Larry Beinhart. NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE

1986: Jonathan Kellerman. WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS

1985: R. D. Rosen. STRIKE THREE, YOU’RE DEAD

1984: Will Harriss. THE BAY PSALM BOOK MURDER

1983: Thomas Perry. THE BUTCHER’S BOY

1982: Stuart Woods. CHIEFS

1981: Kay Nolte Smith. THE WATCHER

1980: Richard North Patterson. THE LASKO TANGENT

1979: William L. DeAndrea. KILLED IN THE RATINGS

1978: Robert Ross. A FRENCH FINISH

1977: James Patterson. THE THOMAS BERRYMAN NUMBER

1976: Rex Burns. THE ALVAREZ JOURNAL

1975: Gregory McDonald. FLETCH

1974: Paul E. Erdman. THE BILLION DOLLAR SURE THING

1973: R. H. Shimer. SQUAW POINT

1972: A.H.Z. Carr. FINDING MAUBEE

1971: Lawrence Sanders. THE ANDERSON TAPES

1970: Joe Gores. A TIME OF PREDATORS

1969 (tie):

  • E. Richard Johnson. SILVER STREET.
  • Dorothy Uhnak. THE BAIT

1968: Michael Collins. ACT OF FEAR

1967: Ross Thomas. THE COLD WAR SWAP

1966: John Ball. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

1965: Harry Kemelman. FRIDAY THE RABBI SLEPT LATE

1964: Cornelius Hirschberg. THE FLORENTINE FINISH

1963: Robert L. Fish. THE FUGITIVE

1962: Suzanne Blanc. THE GREEN STONE

1961: John Holbrook Vance. THE MAN IN THE CAGE

1960: Henry Sleasar. THE GREY FLANNEL SHROUD

1959: Richard Martin Stern. THE BRIGHT ROAD TO FEAR

1958: William Rawle Weeks. KNOCK AND WAIT

1957: Donald McNutt Douglass. REBECCA’S PRIDE

1956: Lane Kauffman. THE PERFECTIONIST

1955: Jean Potts. GO, LOVELY ROSE

1954: Ira Levin. A KISS BEFORE DYING

1953: William Campbell Gault. DON’T CRY FOR ME

1952: Mary McMullen. STRANGLE HOLD

1951: Thomas Walsh. NIGHTMARE IN MANHATTAN

1950: Alan Green. WHAT A BODY!

1949: Mildred Davis. THE ROOM UPSTAIRS

1948: Fredric Brown. THE FABULOUS CLIPJOINT

1947: Helen Eustis. THE HORIZONTAL MAN

1946: Julius Fast. WATCHFUL AT NIGHT

The Hugo Award for Science Fiction Achievement

The Hugo was named in honor of Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the first professional science fiction magazine. The winner is chosen by a mail vote by the attending and supporting members of each World Science Fiction Convention. To visit their site go to http://www.thehugoawards.org

Best Novel:

2017: N. K. Jemisin. THE OBELISK GATE

2016: N.K. Jemisin. THE FIFTH SEASON

2015: Cixin Liu (Ken Liu, translator). THE THREE BODY PROBLEM

2014: Ann Leckie. ANCILLARY JUSTICE

2013: John Scalzi. RED SHIRTS: A NOVEL WITH THREE CODAS

2012: Jo Walton. AMONG OTHERS

2011: Connie Willis. BLACK OUT/ALLCLEAR

2010 (tie):

  • China Miéville. THE CITY & THE CITY
  • Paolo Bacigalupi. THE WINDUP GIRL

2009: Neil Gaiman. THE GRAVEYARD BOOK

2008: Michael Chabon. THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION

2007: Vernor Vinge. RAINBOWS END

2006: Robert Charles Wilson. SPIN

2005: Susanna Clarke. JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL

2004: Lois McMaster Bujold. PALADIN OF SOULS

2003: Robert J. Sawyer. HOMINIDS

2002: Neil Gaiman. AMERICAN GODS

2001: J. K. Rowling. HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

2000: Vernor Vinge. A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY

1999: Connie Willis. TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG

1998: Joe Haldeman. FOREVER PEACE

1997: Kim Stanley Robinson. BLUE MARS

1996: Neal Stephenson. THE DIAMOND AGE

1995: Lois McMaster Bujold. MIRROR DANCE

1994: Kim Stanley Robinson. GREEN MARS

1993 (tie):

  • Vernor Vinge. A FIRE UPON THE DEEP
  • Connie Willis. THE DOOMSDAY BOOK

1992: Lois McMaster Bujold. BARRAYAR

1991: Lois McMaster Bujold. THE VOR GAME

1990: Dan Simmons. HYPERION

1989: C. J. Cherryh. CYTEEN

1988: David Brin. THE UPLIFT WAR

1987: Orson Scott Card. SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD

1986: Orson Scott Card. ENDER’S GAME

1985: William Gibson. NEUROMANCER

1984: David Brin. STARTIDE RISING

1983: Isaac Asimov. FOUNDATION’S EDGE

1982: C. J. Cherryh. DOWNBELOW STATION

1981: Joan D. Vinge. THE SNOW QUEEN

1980: Arthur C. Clarke. THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE

1979: Vonda N. McIntyre. DREAMSNAKE

1978: Frederik Pohl. GATEWAY

1977: Kate Wilhelm. WHERE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG

1976: Joe Haldeman. THE FOREVER WAR

1975: Ursula K. Le Guin. THE DISPOSSESSED

1974: Arthur C. Clarke. RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA

1973: Isaac Asimov. THE GODS THEMSELVES

1972: Philip José Farmer. TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO

1971: Larry Niven. RINGWORLD

1970: Ursula K. Le Guin. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS

1969: John Brunner. STAND ON ZANZIBAR

1968: Roger Zelazny. LORD OF LIGHT

1967: Robert A. Heinlein. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS

1966 (tie):

  • Roger Zelazny. THE DREAM MASTER
  • Frank Herbert. DUNE

1965: Fritz Leiber. THE WANDERER

1964: Clifford D. Simak. WAY STATION

1963: Philip K. Dick. THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE

1962: Robert A. Heinlein. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

1961: Walter M. Miller, Jr. A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ

1960: Robert A. Heinlein. STARSHIP TROOPERS

1959: James Blish. A CASE OF CONSCIENCE

1958: Fritz Leiber. THE BIG TIME

1957: No award

1956: Robert A. Heinlein. DOUBLE STAR

1955: Frank Riley and Mark Clifton. THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT

1954: No award

1953: Alfred Bester. THE DEMOLISHED MAN

National Book Award

An annual award ($10,000) given by the National Book Foundation for best fiction. To visit their site go to www.nationalbook.org

2021: Jason Mott. HELL OF A BOOK

2020: Charles Yu. INTERIOR CHINATOWN

2019: Susan Choi. TRUST EXERCISE

2018: Sigrid Nunez. THE FRIEND

2017: Jesmyn Ward. SING, UNBURIED, SING

2016: Colson Whitehead. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

2015: Adam Johnson. FORTUNE SMILES

2014: Phil Klay. REDEPLOYMENT

2013: James McBride. THE GOOD LORD BIRD

2012: Louise Erdrich. THE ROUND HOUSE

2011: Jesmyn Ward. SALVAGE THE BONES

2010: Jaimy Gordon. LORD OF MISRULE

2009: Colum McCann. LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

2008: Peter Matthiessen. SHADOW COUNTRY

2007: Denis Johnson. TREE OF SMOKE

2006: Richard Powers. THE ECHO MAKER

2005: William Vollmann. EUROPE CENTRAL

2004: Lily Tuck. THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY

2003: Shirley Hazzard. THE GREAT FIRE

2002: Julia Glass. THREE JUNES

2001: Jonathan Franzen. THE CORRECTIONS

2000: Susan Sontag. IN AMERICA

1999: Ha Jin. WAITING

1998: Alice McDermott. CHARMING BILLY

1997: Charles Frazier. COLD MOUNTAIN

1996: Andrea Barrett. SHIP FEVER AND OTHER STORIES

1995: Philip Roth. SABBATH’S THEATER

1994: William Gaddis. A FROLIC OF HIS OWN

1993: E. Annie Proulx. THE SHIPPING NEWS

1992: Cormac McCarthy. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES

1991: Norman Rush. MATING

1990: Charles Johnson. MIDDLE PASSAGE

1989: John Casey. SPARTINA

1988: Pete Dexter. PARIS TROUT

1987: Larry Heinemann. PACO’S STORY

1986: E. L. Doctorow. WORLD’S FAIR

1985: Don DeLillo. WHITE NOISE

1984: Ellen Gilchrist. VICTORY OVER JAPAN

1983: Alice Walker. THE COLOR PURPLE

1982: John Updike. RABBIT IS RICH

1981: Wright Morris. PLAINS SONG

1980: John Irving. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP

1979: Tim O’Brien. GOING AFTER CACCIATO

1978: Mary Lee Settle. BLOOD TIES

1977: Stegner. THE SPECTATOR BIRD

1976: William Gaddis. JR

1975 (tie):

  • Robert Stone. DOG SOLDIERS
  • Thomas Williams. THE HAIR OF HAROLD ROUX

1974 (tie):

  • Thomas Pynchon. GRAVITY’S RAINBOW
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer. A CROWN OF FEATHERS

1973 (tie):

  • John Barth. CHIMERA
  • John Williams. AUGUSTUS

1972: Flannery O’Connor. THE COMPLETE STORIES

1971: Saul Bellow. MR. SAMMLER’S PLANET

1970: Joyce Carol Oates. THEM

1969: Jerzy Kosinski. STEPS

1968: Thornton Wilder. THE EIGHTH DAY

1967: Bernard Malamud. THE FIXER

1966: Katherine Anne Porter. THE COLLECTED STORIES

1965: Saul Bellow. HERZOG

1964: John Updike. THE CENTAUR

1963: J. F. Powers. MORTE D’URBAN

1962: Walker Percy. THE MOVIEGOER

1961: Conrad Richter. THE WATERS OF KRONOS

1960: Philip Roth. GOODBYE, COLUMBUS

1959: Bernard Malamud. THE MAGIC BARREL

1958: John Cheever. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE

1957: Wright Morris. THE FIELD OF VISION

1956: John O’Hara. TEN NORTH FREDERICK

1955: William Faulkner. A FABLE

1954: Saul Bellow. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH

1953: Ralph Ellison. INVISIBLE MAN

1952: James Jones. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

1951: William Faulkner. THE COLLECTED STORIES

1950: Nelson Algren. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

The Nebula Award

The Nebula is awarded annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). To visit the awards site go to www.nebulaawards.com

(Award presented in . . .)

2016: Charlie Jane Anders. ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY

2015: Naomi Novik. UPROOTED

2014: Jeff VanderMeer. ANNIHILATION

2013: Kim Stanley Robinson. 2312

2012: Jo Walton. AMONG OTHERS

2011: Connie Willis. BLACKOUT/ALL CLEAR

2010: Paolo Bacigalupi THE WINDUP GIRL

2009: Ursula K. Le Guin. POWERS

2008: Michael Chabon. THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN'S UNION

2007: Jack McDevitt. SEEKER

2006: Joe Haldeman. CAMOUFLAGE

2005: Lois McMaster Bujold. PALADIN OF SOULS

2004: Elizabeth Moon. THE SPEED OF DARK

2003: Neil Gaiman. AMERICAN GODS

2002: Catherine Asaro. THE QUANTUM ROSE

2001: Greg Bear. DARWIN’S RADIO

2000: Octavia E. Butler. PARABLE OF THE TALENTS

1999: Joe Haldeman. FOREVER PEACE

1998: Vonda N. McIntyre. THE MOON AND THE SUN

1997: Nicola Griffith. SLOW RIVER

1996: Robert J. Sawyer. THE TERMINAL EXPERIMENT

1995: Greg Bear. MOVING MARS

1994: Kim Staney Robinson. RED MARS

1993: Connie Willis. THE DOOMSDAY BOOK

1992: Michael Swanwick. STATIONS OF THE TIDE

1991: Ursula K. Le Guin. THE LAST BOOK OF EARTHSEA

1990: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. THE HEALER’S WAR

1989: Lois McMaster Bujold. FALLING FREE

1988: Pat Murphy. THE FALLING WOMAN

1987: Orson Scott Card. SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD

1986: Orson Scott Card. ENDER’S GAME

1985: William Gibson. NEUROMANCER

1984: David Brin. STARTIDE RISING

1983: Michael Bishop. NO ENEMY BUT TIME

1982: Gene Wolfe. THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR

1981: Gregory Benford. TIMESCAPE

1980: Arthur C. Clarke. THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE

1979: Vonda N. McIntyre. DREAMSNAKE

1978: Frederik Pohl. GATEWAY

1977: Frederik Pohl. MAN PLUS

1976: Joe Haldeman. THE FOREVER WAR

1975: Ursula K. Le Guin. THE DISPOSSESSED

1974: Arthur C. Clarke. RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA

1973: Isaac Asimov. THE GODS THEMSELVES

1972: Robert Silverberg. A TIME OF CHANGES

1971: Larry Niven. RINGWORLD

1970: Ursula K. Le Guin. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS

1969: Alexei Panshin. RITE OF PASSAGE

1968: Samuel R. Delany. THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION

1967 (tie):

  • Samuel R. Delany. BABEL-17
  • Daniel Keyes. FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON

1966: Frank Herbert. DUNE

The Newbery Medal

The Newbery is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of the American Library Association) to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. To visit their site go to www.ala.org

2017: Kelly Barnhill. THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON

2016: Matt de la Peña. LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET

2015: Kwame Alexander. THE CROSSOVER

2014: Kate DiCamillo. FLORA & ULYSSES

2013: Katherine Applegate. THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN

2012: Jack Gantos. DEAD END IN NORVELT

2011: Clare Vanderpool. MOON OVER MANIFEST

2010: Rebecca Stead. WHEN YOU REACH ME

2009: Neil Gaiman. THE GRAVEYARD BOOK

2008: Laura Amy Schlitz. GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES! VOICES FROM A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE

2007: Susan Patron. THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY

2006: Lynne Rae Perkins. CRISS CROSS

2005: Cynthia Kadohata. KIRA-KIRA

2004: Kate DiCamillo. THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX

2003: Avi. CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD

2002: Linda Sue Park. A SINGLE SHARD

2001: Richard Peck. A YEAR DOWN YONDER

2000: Christopher Paul Curtis. BUD, NOT BUDDY

1999: Louis Sachar. HOLES

1998: Karen Hesse. OUT OF THE DUST

1997. E. L. Konigsburg. THE VIEW FOR SATURDAY

1996: Karen Cushman. THE MIDWIFE’S APPRENTICE

1995: Sharon Creech. WALK TWO MOONS

1994: Lois Lowry. THE GIVER

1993: Cynthia Ryland. MISSING MAY

1992: Reynolds Naylor. SHILOH

1991: Jerry Spinelli. MANIAC MAGEE

1990: Lois Lowry. NUMBER THE STARS

1989: Paul Fleischman. JOYFUL NOISE: POEMS FOR TWO VOICES

1988: Russell Freedman. LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY

1987: Sid Fleischman. THE WHIPPING BOY

1986: Robin MacLachlan. SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL

1985: Robin McKinley. THE HERO AND THE CROWN

1984: Beverly Cleary. DEAR MR. HENSHAW

1983: Cynthia Voigt. DICEY’S SONG

1982: Nancy Willard. A VISIT TO WILLIAM BLAKE’S INN: POEMS FOR INNOCENT AND EXPERIENCED TRAVELERS

1981: Katherine Paterson. JACOB HAVE I LOVED

1980: Joan Blos. A GATHERING OF DAYS

1979: Ellen Raskin. THE WESTING GAME

1978: Katherine Paterson. BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA

1977: Mildred D. Taylor. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY

1976: Susan Cooper. GREY KING

1975: Virginia Hamilton. M. C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT

1974: Paula Fox. THE SLAVE DANCER

1973: Jean George. JULIE OF THE WOLVES

1972: Robert C. O’Brien. MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH

1971: Betsy Byars. SUMMER OF THE SWANS

1970: William H. Armstrong. SOUNDER

1969: Lloyd Alexander. THE HIGH KING

1968: E. L. Konigsburg. FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASILE E. FRANKWEILER

1967: Irene Hunt. UP A ROAD SLOWLY

1966: Elizabeth Borten de Trevino. I, JUAN DE PAREJA

1965: Maia Wojciechowska. SHADOW OF A BULL

1964: Emily Cheney Neville. IT’S LIKE THIS, CAT

1963: Madeleine L’Engle. A WRINKLE IN TIME

1962: Elizabeth George Speare. THE BRONZE BOW

1961: Scott O’Dell. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS

1960: Joseph Krungold. ONION JOHN

1959: Elizabeth George Speare. THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND

1958: Harold Keith. RIFLES FOR WATIE

1957: Virginia Sorensen. MIRACLES ON MAPLE HILL

1956: Jean Lee Latham. CARRY ON, MR. BOWDITCH

1955: Meindert DeJong. THE WHEEL ON THE SCHOOL

1954: Joseph Krumgold. ...AND NOW MIGUEL

1953: Ann Nolan Clark. SECRET OF THE ANDES

1952: Eleanor Estes. GINGER PYE

1951: Elizabeth Yates. AMOS FORTUNE

1950: Marguerite de Angeli. THE DOOR IN THE WALL

1949: Marguerite Henry. KING OF THE WIND

1948: William Pè du Bois. TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS

1947: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. MISS HICKORY

1946: Lois Lenski. STRAWBERRY GIRL

1945: Robert Lawson. RABBIT HILL

1944: Esther Forbes. JOHNNY TREMAIN

1943: Elizabeth Janet Gray. ADAM OF THE ROAD

1942: Walter D. Edmonds. THE MATCHLOCK GUN

1941: Armstrong Sperry. CALL IT COURAGE

1940: James Daugherty. DANIEL BOONE

1939: Elizabeth Enright. THIMBLE SUMMER

1938: Kate Seredy. THE WHITE STAG

1937: Ruth Sawyer. ROLLER SKATES

1936: Carol Brink. CADDIE WOODLAWN

1935: Monica Shannon. DOBRY

1934: Cornelia Meigs. INVINCIBLE LOUISA

1933: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis. YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE

1932: Laura Adams Armer. WATERLESS MOUNTAIN

1931: Elizabeth Coatsworth. THE CAT WHO WENT TO HEAVEN

1930: Rachel Field. HITTY, HER FIRST HUNDRED YEARS

1929: Eric P. Kelley. THE TRUMPETER

1928: Dhan Gopal Mukerji. GAYNECK, THE STORY OF A PIGEON

1927: Will James. SMOKY, THE COWHORSE

1926: Arthur Bowie Chrisman. SHEN OF THE SEA

1925: Charles Finger. TALES FROM SILVER LANDS

1924: Charles Hawes. THE DARK FRIGATE

1923: Hugh Lofting. THE VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE

PEN/Faulkner Award

PEN/Faulkner was founded in 1980 by writers to honor their peers, and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the United States. It is named in honor of William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers. To visit their site go to www.penfaulkner.org

2017: Imbolo Mbue. BEHOLD THE DREAMERS

2016: James Hannaham. DELICIOUS FOODS

2015: Atticus Lish. PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE

2014: Karen Joy Fowler. WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES

2013: Benjamin Alire Sáenz. EVERYTHING BEGINS & ENDS AT THE KENTUCKY CLUB

2012: Julie Otsuka. THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC

2011: Deborah Eisenberg. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF...

2010: Sherman Alexie. WAR DANCES

2009: Joseph O'Neill. NETHERLAND

2008: Kate Christensen. THE GREAT MAN

2007: Philip Roth. EVERYMAN

2006: E. L. Doctorow. THE MARCH

2005: Ha Jin. WAR TRASH

2004: John Updike. THE EARLY STORIES 1953-1975

2003: Sabina Murray. THE CAPRICES

2002: Ann Patchett. BEL CANTO

2001: Philip Roth. THE HUMAN STAIN

2000: Ha Jin. WAITING

1999: Michael Cunningham. THE HOURS

1998: Rafi Zabor. THE BEAR COMES HOME

1997: Gina Berriault. WOMEN IN THEIR BEDS

1996: Richard Ford. INDEPENDENCE DAY

1995: David Guterson. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS

1994: Philip Roth. OPERATION SHYLOCK

1993: E. Annie Proulx. POSTCARDS

1992: Don DeLillo. MAO II

1991: John Edgar Wideman. PHILADELPHIA FIRE

1990: E. L. Doctorow. BILLY BATHGATE

1989: James Salter. DUSK

1988: T. Coraghessan Boyle. WORLD’S END

1987: Richard Wiley. SOLDIERS IN HIDING

1986: Peter Taylor. THE OLD FOREST AND OTHER TALES

1985: Tobias Wolff. THE BARRACKS THIEF

1984: John Edgar Wideman. SENT FOR YOU YESTERDAY

1983: Toby Olson. SEAVIEW

1982: David Bradley. THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT

1981: Walter Abish. HOW GERMAN IS IT?

Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction

Joseph Pulitzer, a publisher of the New York Globe, established the Pulitzer Prize through an endowment to Columbia University. The prizes are awarded annually. The Fiction Award is given for fiction in book form by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. To visit their site go to www.pulitzer.org

2017: Colson Whitehead. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

2016: Viet Thanh Nguyen. THE SYMPATHIZER

2015: Anthony Doerr. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

2014: Donna Tartt. THE GOLDFINCH

2013: Adam Johnson. THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON

2012: No award

2011: Jennifer Egan. A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD

2010: Paul Harding. TINKERS

2009: Elizabeth Strout. OLIVE KITTERIDGE

2008: Junot Diaz. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO

2007: Cormac McCarthy. THE ROAD

2006: Geraldine Brooks. MARCH

2005: Marilynne Robinson. GILEAD

2004: Edward P. Jones. THE KNOWN WORLD

2003: Jeffrey Eugenides. MIDDLESEX

2002: Richard Russo. EMPIRE FALLS

2001: Michael Chabon. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY

2000: Jhumpa Lahiri. INTERPRETER OF MALADIES

1999: Michael Cunningham. THE HOURS

1998: Philip Roth. AMERICAN PASTORAL

1997: Steven Millhauser. MATIN DRESSLER: THE TALE OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER

1996: Richard Ford. INDEPENDENCE DAY

1995: Carol Shields. THE STONE DIARIES

1994: E. Annie Proulx. THE SHIPPING NEWS

1993: Robert Olen Butler. A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN

1992: Jane Smiley. A THOUSAND ACRES

1991: John Updike. RABBIT AT REST

1990: Oscar Hijuelos. THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE

1989: Anne Tyler. BREATHING LESSONS

1988: Toni Morrison. BELOVED

1987: Peter Taylor. A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS

1986: Larry McMurtry. LONESOME DOVE

1985: Alison Lurie. FOREIGN AFFAIRS

1984: William Kennedy. IRONWEED

1983: Alice Walker. THE COLOR PURPLE

1982: John Updike. RABBIT IS RICH

1981: John Kennedy Toole. A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

1980: Norman Mailer. THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG

1979: John Cheever. THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER

1978: James Alan McPherson. ELBOW ROOM

1977: No award

1976: Saul Bellow: HUMBOLDT’S GIFT

1975: Michael Shaara. THE KILLER ANGELS

1974: No award

1973: Eudora Welty. THE OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER

1972: Wallace Stegner. ANGLE OF REPOSE

1971: No award

1970: Jean Stafford. COLLECTED STORIES

1969: N. Scott Momaday. HOUSE MADE OF DAWN

1968: William Styron. THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

1967: Bernard Malamud. THE FIXER

1966: Katherine Anne Porter. COLLECTED STORIES

1965: Shirley Anne Grau. THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE

1964: No award

1963: William Faulkner. THE REIVERS

1962: Edwin O’Connor. THE EDGE OF SADNESS

1961: Harper Lee. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

1960: Allen Drury. ADVISE AND CONSENT

1959: Robert Lewis Taylor. THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE McPHEETERS

1958: James Agee. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY

1957: No award

1956: MacKinlay Kantor. ANDERSONVILLE

1955: William Faulkner. A FABLE

1954: No award

1953: Ernest Hemingway. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

1952: Herman Wouk. THE CAINE MUTINY

1951: Conrad Richter. THE TOWN

1950: A. B. Guthrie. THE WAY WEST

1949: James Gould Cozzens. GUARD OF HONOR

1948: James A. Michener. TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC

1947: Robert Penn Warren. ALL THE KING’S MEN

1946: No award

1945: John Hersey. A BELL FOR ADANO

1944: Martin Flavin. JOURNEY IN THE DARK

1943: Upton Sinclair. DRAGON’S TEETH

1942: Ellen Glasgow. IN THIS OUR LIFE

1941: No award

1940: John Steinbeck. THE GRAPES OF WRATH

1939: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. THE YEARLING

1938: John Phillips Marquand. THE LATE GEORGE APLEY

1937: Margaret Mitchell. GONE WITH THE WIND

1936: Harold Davis. HONEY IN THE HORN

1935: Josephine Winslow Johnson. NOW IN NOVEMBER

1934: Caroline Miller. LAMB IN HIS BOSOM

1933: T. S. Stribling. THE STORE

1932: Pearl S. Buck. THE GOOD EARTH

1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes. YEARS OF GRACE

1930: Oliver La Farge. LAUGHING BOY

1929: Julia Peterkin. SCARLET SISTER MARY

1928: Thornton Wilder. THE BRIDGES OF SAN LUIS REY

1927: Louis Bromfield. EARLY AUTUMN

1926: Sinclair Lewis. (Prize declined.) ARROWSMITH

1925: Edna Ferber. SO BIG

1924: Margaret Wilson. THE ABLE McLAUGHLINS

1923: Willa Cather. ONE OF OURS

1922: Booth Tarkington. ALICE ADAMS

1921: Edith Wharton. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

1920: No award

1919: Booth Tarkington. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS

1918: Ernest Poole. HIS FAMILY

Pulitzer Prize Winners for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is for an American play, preferably original and dealing with American life. To visit their site go to www.pulitzer.org

2017: Lynn Nottage. SWEAT

2016: Lin-Manuel Miranda. HAMILTON

2015: Stephen Adly Guirgis. BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY

2014: Annie Baker. THE FLICK

2013: Ayad Akhtar. DISGRACED

2012: Quiara Alegría Hudes. WATER BY SPOONFUL

2011: Bruce Norris. CLYBOURNE PARK

2010: Brian Yorkey. NEXT TO NORMAL

2009: Lynn Nottage. RUINED

2008: Tracy Letts. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

2007: David Lindsay-Abaire. RABBIT HOLE

2006: No Award

2005: John Patrick Shanley. DOUBT, A PARABLE

2004: Doug Wright. I AM MY OWN WIFE

2003: Nilo Cruz. ANNA IN THE TROPICS

2002: Suzan-Lori Parks. TOPDOG/UNDERDOG

2001: David Auburn. PROOF

2000: Donald Margulies. DINNER WITH FRIENDS

1999: Margaret Edson. WIT

1998: Paul Vogel. HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

1997: No award

1996: Jonathan Larson. RENT

1995: Horton Foote. THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA

1994: Edward Albee. THREE TALL WOMEN

1993: Tony Kushner. ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES

1992: Robert Schenkkan. THE KENTUCKY CYCLE

1991: Neil Simon. LOST IN YONKERS

1990: August Wilson. THE PIANO LESSON

1989: Wendy Wasserstein. THE HEIDI CHRONICLES

1988: Alfred Uhry. DRIVING MISS DAISY

1987: August Wilson. FENCES

1986: No award

1985: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

1984: David Mamet. GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS

1983: Marsha Norman. ‘NIGHT, MOTHER

1982: Charles Fuller. A SOLDIER’S PLAY

1981: Beth Henley. CRIMES OF THE HEART

1980: Lanford Wilson. TALLEY’S FOLLY

1979: Sam Shepard. BURIED CHILD

1978: Donald Coburn. THE GIN GAME

1977: Michael Cristofer. THE SHADOW BOX

1976: Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kleban. A CHORUS LINE

1975: Edward Albee. SEASCAPE

1974: No award

1973: Jason Miller. THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON

1972: No award

1971: Paul Zindel. THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS

1970: Charles Gordone. NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY

1969: Howard Sackler. THE GREAT WHITE HOPE

1968: No award

1967: Edward Albee. A DELICATE BALANCE

1966: No award

1965: Frank D. Gilroy. THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES

1964: No award

1963: No award

1962: Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows. HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING

1961: Tad Mosel. ALL THE WAY HOME

1960: George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, Sheldon Harnick, and
Jerry Bock. FIORELLO

1959: Archibald MacLeish. J.B.

1958: Ketti Frings. LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL

1957: Eugene O’Neill. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

1956: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

1955: Tennessee Williams. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

1954: John Patrick. TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON

1953: William Inge. PICNIC

1952: Joseph Kramm. THE SHRIKE

1951: No award

1950: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan. SOUTH PACIFIC

1949: Arthur Miller. DEATH OF A SALESMAN

1948: Tennessee Williams. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

1947: No award

1946: Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay. STATE OF THE UNION

1945: Mary Chase. HARVEY

1944: No award

1943: Thornton Wilder. THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

1942: No award

1941: Robert E. Sherwood. THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT

1940: William Saroyan. THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE

1939: Robert E. Sherwood. ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS

1938: Thornton Wilder. OUR TOWN

1937: George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

1936: Robert E. Sherwood. IDIOT’S DELIGHT

1935: Zoö Akins. THE OLD MAID

1934: Sidney Kingsley. MEN IN WHITE

1933: Maxwell Anderson. BOTH YOUR HOUSES

1932: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin. OF THEE I SING

1931: Susan Glaspell. ALISON’S HOUSE

1930: Marc Connelly. THE GREEN PASTURES

1929: Elmer Rice. STREET SCENE

1928: Eugene O'Neill. STRANGE INTERLUDE

1927: Paul Green. IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM

1926: George Kelly. CRAIG’S WIFE

1925: Sidney Howard. THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED

1924: Hatcher Hughes. HELL-BENT FOR HEAVEN

1923: Owen Davis. ICEBOUND

1922: Eugene O'Neill. ANNA CHRISTIE

1921: Zona Gale. MISS LULU BETT

1920: Eugene O'Neill. BEYOND THE HORIZON

1919: No award

1918: Jesse Lynch Williams. WHY MARRY?

Pulitzer Prize Winners for American Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. To visit their site go to www.pulitzer.org

2017: Tyehimba Jess. OLIO

2016: Peter Balakian. OZONE JOURNAL

2015: Gregory Pardlo. DIGEST

2014: Vijay Seshadri. THREE SECTIONS

2013: Sharon Olds. STAG'S LEAP

2012: Tracy K. Smith. LIFE ON MARS

2011: Kay Ryan. THE BEST OF IT

2010: Rae Armantrout. VERSED

2009: W. S. Merwin. THE SHADOW OF SIRIUS

2008 (tie):

  • Robert Haas. TIME AND MATERIALS
  • Philip Schultz. FAILURE

2007: Natasha Trethewey. NATIVE GUARD

2006: Claudia Emerson. LATE WIFE

2005: Ted Kooser. DELIGHTS & SHADOWS

2004: Franz Wright. WALKING TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD

2003: Paul Muldoon. MOY SAND AND GRAVEL

2002: Carl Dennis. PRACTICAL GODS

2001: Stephen Dunn. DIFFERENT HOURS

2000: C.K. Williams. REPAIR

1999: Mark Strand. BLIZZARD OF ONE

1998: Charles Wright. BLACK ZODIAC

1997: Lisel Mueller. ALIVE TOGETHER: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS

1996: Jorie Graham. THE DREAM OF THE UNIFIED FIELD

1995: Philip Levine. THE SIMPLE TRUTH

1994: Yusef Komunyakaa. NEON VERRACULAR

1993: Louise Gluck. THE WILD IRIS

1992: James Tate. SELECTED POEMS

1991: Mona Van Duyn. NEAR CHANGES

1990: Charles Simic. THE WORLD DOESN’T END

1989: Richard Wilbur. NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS

1988: William Meredith. PARTIAL ACCOUNT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS

1987: Rita Dove. THOMAS AND BEULAH

1986: Henry Taylor. THE FLYING CHANGE

1985: Carolyn Kizer. YIN

1984: Mary Oliver. AMERICAN PRIMITIVE

1983: Galway Kinnell. SELECTED POEMS

1982: Sylvia Plath. THE COLLECTED POEMS

1981: James Schuyler. THE MORNING OF THE POEM

1980: Donald Justice. SELECTED POEMS

1979: Robert Penn Warren. NOW AND THEN: POEMS 1976-1978

1978: Howard Nemerov. COLLECTED POEMS

1977: James Merrill. DIVINE COMEDIES

1976: John Ashbery. SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR

1975: Gary Snyder. TURTLE ISLAND

1974: Robert Lowell. THE DOLPHIN

1973: Maxine Winokur Kumin. UP COUNTRY

1972: James Wright. COLLECTED POEMS

1971: William S. Merwin. THE CARRIER OF LADDERS

1970: Richard Howard. UNTITLED SUBJECTS

1969: George Oppen. OF BEING NUMEROUS

1968: Anthony Hecht. THE HARD HOURS

1967: Anne Sexton. LIVE OR DIE

1966: Richard Eberhart. SELECTED POEMS

1965: John Berryman. 77 DREAM SONGS

1964: Louis Simpson. AT THE END OF THE OPEN ROAD

1963: William Carlos Williams. PICTURES FROM BREUGHEL

1962: Alan Dugan. POEMS

1961: Phyllis McGinley. TIMES THREE: SELECTED VERSE FROM THREE DECADES

1960: W.D. Snodgrass. HEART'S NEEDLE

1959: Stanley Kunitz. SELECTED POEMS 1928-1958

1958: Robert Penn Warren. PROMISES: POEMS 1954-1956

1957: Richard Wilbur. THINGS OF THIS WORLD

1956: Elizabeth Bishop. POEMS, NORTH AND SOUTH

1955: Wallace Stevens. COLLECTED POEMS

1954: Theodore Roethke. THE WAKING

1953: Archibald MacLeish. COLLECTED POEMS

1952: Marianne Moore. COLLECTED POEMS

1951: Carl Sandburg. COMPLETE POEMS

1950: Gwendolyn Brooks. ANNIE ALLEN

1949: Peter Viereck. TERROR AND DECORUM

1948: W. H. Auden. THE AGE OF ANXIETY

1947: Robert Lowell. LORD WEARY’S CASTLE

1946: No award

1945: Karl Shapiro. V-LETTER AND OTHER POEMS

1944: Stephen Vincent Benét. WESTERN STAR

1943: Robert Frost. A WITNESS TREE

1942: William Rose Benét. THE DUST WHICH IS GOD

1941: Leonard Bacon. SUNDERLAND CAPTURE

1940: Mark Van Doren. COLLECTED POEMS

1939: John Gould Fletcher. SELECTED POEMS

1938: Marya Zaturenska. COLD MORNING SKY

1937: Robert Frost. A FURTHER RANGE

1936: Robert P. Tristram Coffin. STRANGE HOLINESS

1935: Audrey Wurdemann. BRIGHT AMBUSH

1934: Richard Hillyer. COLLECTED VERSE

1933: Archibald MacLeish. CONQUISTADOR

1932: George Dillon. THE FLOWERING STONE

1931: Robert Frost. COLLECTED POEMS

1930: Conrad Aiken. SELECTED POEMS

1929: Stephen Vincent Benét. JOHN BROWN’S BODY

1928: Edwin Arlington Robinson. TRISTRAM

1927: Leonora Speyer. FIDDLER’S FAREWELL

1926: Amy Lowell. WHAT’S O’CLOCK

1925: Edwin Arlington Robinson. THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE

1924: Robert Frost. NEW HAMPSHIRE: A POEM WITH NOTES AND GRACE NOTES

1923: Edna St. Vincent Millay. THE BALLAD OF THE HARP-WEAVER; A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES; EIGHT SONNETS IN AMERICAN POETRY, 1922; and A MISCELLANY

1922: Edwin Arlington Robinson. COLLECTED POEMS

1921: No award

1920: No award

1919 (tie):

  • Carl Sandburg. CORN HUSKERS
  • Margaret Widdemer. OLD ROAD TO PARADISE

1918: Sara Teasdale. LOVE SONGS

1917: No award

Pulitzer Prize Winners for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History is for a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States. To visit their site go to www.pulitzer.org

2017: Heather Ann Thompson. BLOOD IN THE WATER

2016: T.J. Stiles. CUSTER'S TRIALS

2015: Elizabeth A. Fenn. ENCOUNTERS AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD

2014: Alan Taylor. THE INTERNAL ENEMY

2013: Fredrik Logevall. EMBERS OF WAR

2012: Manning Marable. MALCOLM X: A LIFE OF REINVENTION

2011: Eric Foner. THE FIERY TRIAL

2010: Liaquat Ahamed. LORDS OF FINANCE

2009: Annette Gordon-Reed. THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO

2008: Daniel Walker Howe. "WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT

2007: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. THE RACE BEAT

2006: David M. Oshinsky. POLIO

2005: David Hackett Fischer. WASHINGTON'S CROSSING

2004: Steven Hahn. A NATION UNDER OUR FEET

2003: Rick Atkinson. AN ARMY AT DAWN

2002: Louis Menand. THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB

2001: Joseph J. Ellis. FOUNDING BROTHERS

2000: David M. Kennedy. FREEDOM FROM FEAR

1999: Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. GOTHAM

1998: Edward J. Larson. SUMMER FOR THE GODS

1997: Jack N. Rakove. ORIGINAL MEANINGS

1996: Alan Taylor. WILLIAM COOPER'S TOWN

1995: Doris Kearns Goodwin. NO ORDINARY TIME

1994: No award

1993: Gordon S. Wood. THE RADICALISM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1992: Mark E. Neely. THE FATE OF LIBERTY

1991: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A MIDWIFE'S TALE

1990: Stanley Karnow. IN OUR IMAGE

1989: James M. McPherson. BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM

1989: Taylor Branch. PARTING THE WATERS

1988: Robert V. Bruce. THE LAUNCHING OF MODERN AMERICAN SCIENCE

1987: Bernard Bailyn. VOYAGERS TO THE WEST

1986: Walter A. McDougall. ...THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

1985: Thomas K. McCraw. PROPHETS OF REGULATION

1984: No award

1983: Rhys L. Isaac. THE TRANSFORMATION OF VIRGINIA, 1740-1790

1982: C. Vann Woodward, editor. MARY CHESNUT'S CIVIL WAR

1981: Lawrence A. Cremin. AMERICAN EDUCATION

1980: Leon F. Litwack. BEEN IN THE STORM SO LONG

1979: Don E. Fehrenbacher. THE DRED SCOTT CASE

1978: Alfred D. Chandler. THE VISIBLE HAND

1977: David M. Potter . THE IMPENDING CRISIS, 1841-1867

1976: Paul Horgan. LAMY OF SANTA FE

1975: Dumas Malone. JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME, Vols. I-V

1974: Daniel J. Boorstin. THE AMERICANS

1973: Michael Kammen. PEOPLE OF PARADOX

1972: Carl N. Degler. NEITHER BLACK NOR WHITE

1971: James MacGregor Burns. ROOSEVELT: THE SOLDIER OF FREEDOM

1970: Dean Acheson. PRESENT AT THE CREATION

1969: Leonard W. Levy. ORIGINS OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT

1968: Bernard Bailyn. THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1967: William H. Goetzmann. EXPLORATION AND EMPIRE

1966: Perry Miller. THE LIFE OF THE MIND IN AMERICA

1965: Irwin Unger. THE GREENBACK ERA

1964: Sumner Chilton Powell. PURITAN VILLAGE

1963: Constance McLaughlin Green. WASHINGTON, VILLAGE AND CAPITAL, 1800-1878

1962: Lawrence H. Gipson. THE TRIUMPHANT EMPIRE

1961: Herbert Feis. BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE

1960: Margaret Leech. IN THE DAYS OF MCKINLEY

1959: Leonard D. White. THE REPUBLICAN ERA: l869-1901

1958: Bray Hammond. BANKS AND POLITICS IN AMERICA

1957: George F. Kennan. RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR

1956: Richard Hofstadter. THE AGE OF REFORM

1955: Paul Horgan. GREAT RIVER: THE RIO GRANDE...

1954: Bruce Catton. A STILLNESS AT APPOMATTOX

1953: George Dangerfield. THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS

1952: Oscar Handlin. THE UPROOTED

1951: R. Carlyle Buley. THE OLD NORTHWEST

1950: Oliver W. Larkin. ART AND LIFE IN AMERICA

1949: Roy Franklin Nichols. THE DISRUPTION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

1948: Bernard Devoto. ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI

1947: James Phinney Baxter. SCIENTISTS AGAINST TIME

1946: Arthur Meier Schlesinger. THE AGE OF JACKSON

1945: Stephen Bonsal. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

1944: Merle Curti. THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN THOUGHT

1943: Esther Forbes. PAUL REVERE AND THE WORLD HE LIVED IN

1942: Margaret Leech. REVEILLE IN WASHINGTON, 1860-1865

1941: Marcus Lee Hansen. THE ATLANTIC MIGRATION, 1607-1860

1940: Carl Sandburg. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS

1939: Frank Luther Mott. A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES

1938: Paul Herman Buck. THE ROAD TO REUNION, 1865-1900

1937: Van Wyck Brooks. THE FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND 1815-1865

1936: Andrew C. McLaughlin. A CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

1935: Charles McLean Andrews. THE COLONIAL PERIOD OF AMERICAN HISTORY

1934: Herbert Agar. THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE

1933: Frederick J. Turner. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SECTIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY

1932: John J. Pershing. MY EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD WAR

1931: Bernadotte E. Schmitt. THE COMING OF THE WAR 1914

1930: Claude H. Van Tyne. THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

1929: Fred Albert Shannon. THE ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNION ARMY, 1861-1865

1928: Vernon Louis Parrington. MAIN CURRENTS IN AMERICAN THOUGHT, 2 vols.

1927: Samuel Flagg Bemis. PINCKNEY'S TREATY

1926: Edward Channing. A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

1925: Frederic L. Paxson. HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER

1924: Charles Howard McIlwain. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1923: Charles Warren. THE SUPREME COURT IN UNITED STATES HISTORY

1922: James Truslow Adams. THE FOUNDING OF NEW ENGLAND

1921: William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. HendrickTHE VICTORY AT SEA

1920: Justin H. Smith. THE WAR WITH MEXICO, 2 VOLS

1919: No award

1918: James Ford Rhodes. A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 1917: His Excellency J.J. Jusserand. WITH AMERICANS OF PAST AND PRESENT DAYS

2018: Anna Burns. Milkman

2019 (tie):

  • Margaret Atwood. The Testaments
  • Bernardine Evaristo. Girl, Woman, Other

2020: Douglas Stuart. Shuggie Bain