Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
Almost every year since 1948 the Pulitzer Board has awarded the Pulitzer Prize "for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." Here are those winners; titles owned by the Public Library of Westland are linked to our catalog.
- 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
- 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
- 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
- 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- 1991: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
- 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
- 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
- 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
- 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
- 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
- 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
- 1977: No Award
- 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
- 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- 1974: No Award
- 1973: The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty
- 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- 1971: No Award
- 1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
- 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
- 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- 1966: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
- 1965: The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau
- 1964: No Award
- 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
- 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
- 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
- 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
- 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
- 1957: No Award
- 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
- 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
- 1954: No Award
- 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
- 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
- 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
- 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
- 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
