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Pulitzer Prize (1917-present)

The 1910s

• 1st Edition1917Monday, June 4, 1917Jean Jules Jusserand (With Americans of Past and Present Days, History)
• 2nd Edition1918Monday, June 3, 1918Ernest Poole (His Family, Novel)
• 3rd Edition1919Monday, June 2, 1919Booth Tarkington (The Magnificent Ambersons, Novel)

The 1920s

• 4th Edition1920Tuesday, June 1, 1920Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon, Drama)
• 5th Edition1921Monday, May 30, 1921Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence, Novel)
• 6th Edition1922Monday, May 22, 1922Booth Tarkington (Alice Adams, Novel)
• 7th Edition1923Monday, May 14, 1923Willa Cather (One of Ours, Novel)
• 8th Edition1924Monday, May 12, 1924Robert Frost (New Hampshire, Poetry)
• 9th Edition1925Monday, May 4, 1925Edna Ferber (So Big, Novel)
• 10th Edition1926Monday, May 3, 1926Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith, Novel - later declined)
• 11th Edition1927Monday, May 2, 1927Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn, Novel)
• 12th Edition1928Monday, May 7, 1928Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Novel)
• 13th Edition1929Monday, May 13, 1929Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary, Novel)

The 1930s

• 14th Edition (1930) -- Monday, May 5, 1930 -- Oliver La Farge (Laughing Boy, Novel)
• 15th Edition1931Monday, May 4, 1931Margaret Ayer Barnes (Years of Grace, Novel)
• 16th Edition1932Monday, May 2, 1932Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth, Novel)
• 17th Edition1933Monday, May 1, 1933T. S. Stribling (The Store, Novel)
• 18th Edition1934Monday, May 7, 1934Caroline Miller (Lamb in His Bosom, Novel)
• 19th Edition1935Monday, May 6, 1935Josephine Winslow Johnson (Now in November, Novel)
• 20th Edition1936Monday, May 4, 1936Harold L. Davis (Honey in the Horn, Novel)
• 21st Edition1937Monday, May 3, 1937Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind, Novel)
• 22nd Edition1938Monday, May 2, 1938Thornton Wilder (Our Town, Drama)
• 23rd Edition1939Monday, May 1, 1939Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling, Novel)

The 1940s

• 24th Edition (1940) -- Monday, May 6, 1940 -- John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, Novel)
• 25th Edition (1941) -- Monday, May 5, 1941 -- No award in Novel/Fiction (Board vetoed Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• 26th Edition (1942) -- Monday, May 4, 1942 -- Ellen Glasgow (In This Our Life, Novel)
• 27th Edition (1943) -- Monday, May 3, 1943 -- Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth, Novel)
• 28th Edition (1944) -- Monday, May 1, 1944 -- Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark, Novel)
• 29th Edition (1945) -- Monday, May 7, 1945 -- John Hersey (A Bell for Adano, Novel)
• 30th Edition (1946) -- Monday, May 6, 1946 -- No award in Novel/Fiction
• 31st Edition (1947) -- Monday, May 5, 1947 -- Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men, Novel)
• 32nd Edition (1948) -- Monday, May 3, 1948 -- James A. Michener (Tales of the South Pacific, Fiction) (Category officially renamed)
• 33rd Edition (1949) -- Monday, May 2, 1949 -- James Gould Cozzens (Guard of Honor, Fiction)

The 1950s

• 34th Edition (1950) -- Monday, May 1, 1950 -- A. B. Guthrie Jr. (The Way West, Fiction)
• 35th Edition (1951) -- Monday, May 7, 1951 -- Conrad Richter (The Town, Fiction)
• 36th Edition (1952) -- Monday, May 5, 1952 -- Herman Wouk (The Caine Mutiny, Fiction)
• 37th Edition (1953) -- Monday, May 4, 1953 -- Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea, Fiction)
• 38th Edition (1954) -- Monday, May 3, 1954 -- No award in Fiction
• 39th Edition (1955) -- Monday, May 2, 1955 -- William Faulkner (A Fable, Fiction)
• 40th Edition (1956) -- Monday, May 7, 1956 -- MacKinlay Kantor (Andersonville, Fiction)
• 41st Edition (1957) -- Monday, May 6, 1957 -- No award in Fiction
• 42nd Edition (1958) -- Monday, May 5, 1958 -- James Agee (A Death in the Family, Fiction - posthumous award)
• 43rd Edition (1959) -- Monday, May 4, 1959 -- Robert Lewis Taylor (The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Fiction)

The 1960s

44th Edition (1960) -- Monday, May 2, 1960 -- Allen Drury (Advise and Consent, Fiction) 45th Edition (1961) -- Monday, May 1, 1961 -- Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird, Fiction) 46th Edition (1962) -- Monday, May 7, 1962 -- Edwin O'Connor (The Edge of Sadness, Fiction) 47th Edition (1963) -- Monday, May 6, 1963 -- William Faulkner (The Reivers, Fiction - posthumous award) 48th Edition (1964) -- Monday, May 4, 1964 -- No award in Fiction 49th Edition (1965) -- Monday, May 3, 1965 -- Shirley Ann Grau (The Keepers of the House, Fiction) 50th Edition (1966) -- Monday, May 2, 1966 -- Katherine Anne Porter (The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Fiction) 51st Edition (1967) -- Monday, May 1, 1967 -- Bernard Malamud (The Fixer, Fiction) 52nd Edition (1968) -- Monday, May 6, 1968 -- William Styron (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Fiction) 53rd Edition (1969) -- Monday, May 5, 1969 -- N. Scott Momaday (House Made of Dawn, Fiction)

The 1970s

• 54th Edition (1970) -- Monday, May 4, 1970 -- Jean Stafford (Collected Stories, Fiction)
• 55th Edition (1971) -- Monday, May 3, 1971 -- No award in Fiction
• 56th Edition (1972) -- Monday, May 1, 1972 -- Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose, Fiction)
• 57th Edition (1973) -- Monday, May 7, 1973 -- Eudora Welty (The Optimist's Daughter, Fiction)
• 58th Edition (1974) -- Monday, May 6, 1974 -- No award in Fiction (Jury recommended Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, but the Board rejected it)
• 59th Edition (1975) -- Monday, May 5, 1975 -- Michael Shaara (The Killer Angels, Fiction)
• 60th Edition (1976) -- Monday, May 3, 1976 -- Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift, Fiction)
• 61st Edition (1977) -- Monday, May 2, 1977 -- No award in Fiction
• 62nd Edition (1978) -- Monday, May 1, 1978 -- James Alan McPherson (Elbow Room, Fiction)
• 63rd Edition (1979) -- Monday, May 14, 1979 -- John Cheever (The Stories of John Cheever, Fiction)

The 1980s

• 64th Edition (1980) -- Monday, May 12, 1980 -- Norman Mailer (The Executioner's Song, Fiction)
• 65th Edition (1981) -- Monday, May 11, 1981 -- John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces, Fiction - posthumous award)
• 66th Edition (1982) -- Monday, May 10, 1982 -- John Updike (Rabbit Is Rich, Fiction)
• 67th Edition (1983) -- Monday, May 2, 1983 -- Alice Walker (The Color Purple, Fiction)
• 68th Edition (1984) -- Monday, May 14, 1984 -- William Kennedy (Ironweed, Fiction)
• 69th Edition (1985) -- Monday, May 13, 1985 -- Alison Lurie (Foreign Affairs, Fiction)
• 70th Edition (1986) -- Monday, May 17, 1986 -- Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Fiction)
• 71st Edition (1987) -- Monday, May 11, 1987 -- Peter Taylor (A Summons to Memphis, Fiction)
• 72nd Edition (1988) -- Monday, May 9, 1988 -- Toni Morrison (Beloved, Fiction)
• 73rd Edition (1989) -- Monday, May 8, 1989 -- Anne Tyler (Breathing Lessons, Fiction)

The 1990s

74th Edition (1990) -- Monday, May 14, 1990 -- Oscar Hijuelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Fiction)75th Edition (1991) -- Monday, May 13, 1991 -- John Updike (Rabbit At Rest, Fiction)76th Edition (1992) -- Tuesday, May 5, 1992 -- Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres, Fiction)77th Edition (1993) -- Monday, May 13, 1993 -- Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Fiction)78th Edition (1994) -- Tuesday, May 3, 1994 -- E. Annie Proulx (The Shipping News, Fiction)79th Edition (1995) -- Tuesday, May 2, 1995 -- Carol Shields (The Stone Diaries, Fiction)80th Edition (1996) -- Tuesday, May 9, 1996 -- Richard Ford (Independence Day, Fiction)81st Edition (1997) -- Monday, May 14, 1997 -- Steven Millhauser (Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Fiction)82nd Edition (1998) -- Tuesday, May 14, 1998 -- Philip Roth (American Pastoral, Fiction)83rd Edition (1999) -- Monday, May 12, 1999 -- Michael Cunningham (The Hours, Fiction)

The 2000s

84th Edition (2000) -- Monday, May 10, 2000 -- Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies, Fiction)85th Edition (2001) -- Monday, May 14, 2001 -- Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Fiction)86th Edition (2002) -- Monday, May 13, 2002 -- Richard Russo (Empire Falls, Fiction)87th Edition (2003) -- Monday, May 7, 2003 -- Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex, Fiction)88th Edition (2004) -- Monday, April 5, 2004 -- Edward P. Jones (The Known World, Fiction) (Permanent transition to April)89th Edition (2005) -- Monday, April 4, 2005 -- Marilynne Robinson (Gilead, Fiction)90th Edition (2006) -- Monday, April 17, 2006 -- Geraldine Brooks (March, Fiction)91st Edition (2007) -- Monday, April 16, 2007 -- Cormac McCarthy (The Road, Fiction)92nd Edition (2008) -- Monday, April 7, 2008 -- Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Fiction)93rd Edition (2009) -- Monday, April 20, 2009 -- Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge, Fiction)

The 2010s

• 94th Edition (2010) -- Monday, April 12, 2010 -- Paul Harding (Tinkers, Fiction)
• 95th Edition (2011) -- Monday, April 18, 2011 -- Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad, Fiction)
• 96th Edition (2012) -- Monday, April 16, 2012 -- No award in Fiction
• 97th Edition (2013) -- Monday, April 15, 2013 -- Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master's Son, Fiction)
• 98th Edition (2014) -- Monday, April 14, 2014 -- Donna Tartt (The Goldfinch, Fiction)
• 99th Edition (2015) -- Monday, April 20, 2015 -- Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See, Fiction)
• 100th Edition (2016) -- Monday, April 18, 2016 -- Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer, Fiction)
• 101st Edition (2017) -- Monday, April 10, 2017 -- Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad, Fiction)
• 102nd Edition (2018) -- Monday, April 16, 2018 -- Andrew Sean Greer (Less, Fiction)
• 103rd Edition (2019) -- Monday, April 16, 2019 -- Richard Powers (The Overstory, Fiction)

The 2020s

• 104th Edition (2020) -- Monday, May 4, 2020 -- Colson Whitehead (The Nickel Boys, Fiction) (Delayed to May due to COVID-19 pandemic)
• 105th Edition (2021) -- Friday, June 11, 2021 -- Louise Erdrich (The Night Watchman, Fiction) (Exceptional summer date to accommodate remote juries)
• 106th Edition (2022) -- Monday, May 9, 2022 -- Joshua Cohen (The Netanyahus, Fiction)
• 107th Edition (2023) -- Monday, May 8, 2023 -- Hernan Diaz (Trust, Fiction) & Barbara Kingsolver (Demon Copperhead, Fiction) (Rare joint-winner year)
• 108th Edition (2024) -- Monday, May 6, 2024 -- Jayne Anne Phillips (Night Watch, Fiction)
• 109th Edition (2025) -- Monday, May 5, 2025 -- Percival Everett (James, Fiction)
• 110th Edition (2026) -- Monday, May 4, 2026 -- Daniel Kraus (Angel Down, Fiction)