Pulitzer Prize
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The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
| 2009 | Olive Kitteridge,by Elizabeth Strout |
| 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz |
| 2007 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
| 2006 | Marchby Geraldine Brooks |
| 2005 | Gileadby Marilynne Robinson |
| 2004 | The Known World by Edward P. Jones |
| 2003 | Middlesexby Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 2002 | Empire Falls by Richard Russo |
| 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon |
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2000 |
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri |
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1999 |
The Hours by Michael Cunningham |
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1998 |
American Pastoral by Philip Roth |
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1997 |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser |
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1996 |
Independence Day by Richard Ford |
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1995 |
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields |
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1994 |
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx |
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1993 |
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler |
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1992 |
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley |
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1991 |
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike |
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1990 |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos |
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1989 |
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler |
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1988 |
Belovedby Toni Morrison |
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1987 |
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor |
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1986 |
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry |
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1985 |
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie |
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1984 |
Ironweedby William Kennedy |
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1983 |
The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
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1982 |
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike |
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1981 |
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole |
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1980 |
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer |
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1979 |
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever |
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1978 |
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson |
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1977 |
No Award |
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1976 |
Humboldt's |
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1975 |
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara |
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1974 |
No Award |
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1973 |
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty |
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1972 |
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner |
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1971 |
No Award |
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1970 |
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford |
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1969 |
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday |
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1968 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron |
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1967 |
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud |
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1966 |
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter |
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1965 |
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau |
| 2009 | American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham |
| 2008 | Eden's Outcasts: the Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father,by John Matteson |
| 2007 | The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate |
| 2006 | American Prometheus:The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimerby Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin |
| 2005 | de Kooning:An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan |
| 2004 | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman |
| 2003 | Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro |
| 2002 | John Adams by David McCullough |
| 2001 | W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis |
| 2000 | Vera (Mrs.Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff |
| 1999 | Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg |
| 1998 | Personal History by Katharine Graham |
| 1997 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt |
| 1996 | God: A Biography by Jack Miles |
| 1995 | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick |
| 1994 | W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis |
| 1993 | Truman by David McCullough |
| 1992 | Fortunate Son:The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller, Jr. |
| 1991 | Jackson Pollockby Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith |
| 1990 | Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia |
| 1989 | Oscar Wildeby the late Richard Ellmann |
| 1988 | Look Homeward:A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald |
| 1987 | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow |
| 1986 | Louise Bogan:A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank |
| 1985 | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman |
| 1984 | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan |
| 1983 | Growing Up by Russell Baker |
| 1982 | Grant:A Biography by William McFeely |
| 1981 | Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie |
| 1980 | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris |
| 1979 |
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker |
| 1978 | Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate |
| 1977 | A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by John E. Mack |
| 1976 | Edith Wharton:A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis |
| 1975 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro |
| 1974 | O'Neill,Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer |
| 1973 | Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg |
| 1972 | Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash |
| 1971 | Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson No copy available. |
| 1970 | Huey Long by T. Harry Williams |
| 1969 | The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid |
| 1968 | Memoirsby George F. Kennan |
| 1967 | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan |
| 1966 | A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
| 1965 | Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels |
| 2009 |
Ruined, by Lynn Nottage |
| 2008 | August:Osage County,by Tracy Letts |
| 2007 | Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire |
| 2006 | No award |
| 2005 | Doubt,a parable by John Patrick Shanley |
| 2004 | I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright |
| 2003 | Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz |
| 2002 | Topdog/Underdogby Suzan-Lori Parks |
| 2001 | Proofby David Auburn |
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2000 |
Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies |
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1999 |
Wit by Margaret Edson |
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1998 |
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel |
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1997 |
No Award |
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1996 |
Rent by Jonathan Larson |
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1995 |
The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote |
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1994 |
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee |
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1993 |
Angels in America by Tony Kushner |
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1992 |
The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan |
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1991 |
Lost in Yonkers by Neil |
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1990 |
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson |
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1989 |
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein |
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1988 |
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry |
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1987 |
Fences by August Wilson |
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1986 |
No Award |
| 2009 | The Shadow of Sirius,by W.S. Merwin |
| 2008 |
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997 - 2005, by Robert Hass Failure,by Philip Schultz |
| 2007 | Native Guardby Natasha Tretheway |
| 2006 | Late Wife by Claudia Emerson |
| 2005 | Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser |
| 2004 | Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright |
| 2003 | Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon |
| 2002 | Practical Gods by Carl Dennis |
| 2001 | Different Hours by Stephen Dunn |
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2000 |
Repairby C.K. Williams |
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1999 |
Blizzard of One by Mark Strand |
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1998 |
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright |
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1997 |
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller |
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1996 |
The Dream of the Unified |
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1995 |
The Simple Truth by Philip Levine |
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1994 |
Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa |
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1993 |
The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck |
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1992 |
Selected Poems by James Tate |
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1991 |
Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn |
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1990 |
The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic |
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1989 |
New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur |
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1988 |
Partial Accounts by William Meredith |
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1987 |
Thomas and Beulah by |
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1986 |
The Flying Change by Henry Taylor |