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
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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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