LibGuides: Literary Award Winners at HCTC Libraries: Pulitzer

Award Winners (2010-Present)

Demon Copperhead

2023

Fiction

Trust

2023

Fiction

Stay True

2023

Memoir

Covered with Night

2022

History

Invisible Child

2022

General Nonfiction

The Night Watchman

2021

Fiction

Wilmington's Lie

2021

General Nonfiction

The Nickel Boys

2020

Fiction

The Overstory

2019

Fiction

Frederick Douglass

2019

History

The New Negro

2019

Biography

Be With

2019

Poetry

Amity and Prosperity

2019

General Nonfiction

Less

2018

Fiction

The Gulf

2018

History

Prairie Fires

2018

Biography

Half-Light

2018

Poetry

Locking up Our Own

2018

General Nonfiction

The Underground Railroad

2017

Fiction

The Return

2017

Biography

Evicted

2017

General Nonfiction

The Sympathizer

2017

Fiction

Custer's Trials

2016

History

All the Light We Cannot See

2015

Fiction

The Sixth Extinction

2015

General Nonfiction

The Goldfinch

2014

Fiction

The Internal Enemy

Margaret Fuller

2014

Biography

3 Sections

2014

Poetry

The Orphan Master's Son

2013

Fiction

Embers of War

2013

History

The Black Count

2013

Biography

Malcolm X

2012

History

George F. Kennan

2012

Biography

A Visit from the Goon Squad

2011

Fiction

The Fiery Trial

2011

History

Washington

2011

Biography

The Best of It

2011

Poetry

The Emperor of All Maladies

2011

General Nonfiction

Tinkers

2010

Fiction

The First Tycoon

2010

Biography

Dead Hand

2010

General Nonfiction

Award Winners (2000-2009)

Olive Kitteridge

2009

Fiction

The Hemingses of Monticello

2009

History

American Lion

2009

Biography

Slavery by Another Name

2009

General Nonfiction

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2008

Fiction

What Hath God Wrought

2008

History

Eden's Outcasts

2008

Biography

The Years of Extermination

2008

General Nonfiction

The Road

2007

Fiction

The Looming Tower

2007

General Nonfiction

March

2006

Fiction

Polio

2006

History

American Prometheus

2006

Biography

Late Wife

2006

Poetry

Gilead

2005

Fiction

Washington's Crossing

2005

History

Delights and Shadows

2005

Poetry

Ghost Wars

2005

General Nonfiction

The Known World

2004

Fiction

Khrushchev

2004

Biography

Gulag

2004

General Nonfiction

Middlesex

2003

Fiction

Master of the Senate

2003

Biography

A Problem from Hell

2003

General Nonfiction

Carry Me Home

2002

General Nonfiction

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

2001

Fiction

Founding Brothers

2001

History

W. E. B. Du Bois

2001

Biography

Different Hours

2001

Poetry

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

2001

General Nonfiction

Interpreter of Maladies

2000

Fiction

Freedom from Fear

2000

History

Embracing Defeat

2000

General Nonfiction

Award Winners (1990-1999)

The Hours

1999

Fiction

Lindbergh

1999

Biography

Annals of the Former World

1999

General Nonfiction

Summer for the Gods

1998

History

Guns, Germs, and Steel

1998

General Nonfiction

Martin Dressler

1997

Fiction

Original Meanings

1997

History

Angela's Ashes

1997

Biography

Ashes to Ashes

1997

General Nonfiction

Independence Day

1996

Fiction

The Stone Diaries

1995

Fiction

No Ordinary Time

1995

History

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1995

Biography

The Shipping News

1994

Fiction

W. E. B. du Bois

1994

Biography

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

1993

Fiction

Truman

1993

Biography

Lincoln at Gettysburg

1993

General Nonfiction

A Thousand Acres

1992

Fiction

Selected Poems

1992

Poetry

The Prize

1992

General Nonfiction

The Ants

1991

General Nonfiction

The Piano Lesson

1990

Drama

Award Winners (Prior to 1990)

1989
- Fiction
  - Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
- Drama
  - The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein
- History
  - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M. McPherson
- Biography
  - Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann
- Poetry
  - New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur
- General Nonfiction
  - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan
1988
- Fiction
  - Beloved, by Toni Morrison
- Biography
  - Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, by David Herbert Donald
- General Nonfiction
  - The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
1987
- Fiction
  - A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor
- History
  - Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn
- Biography
  - Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow
- Poetry
  - Thomas and Beulah, by Rita Dove
- General Nonfiction
  - Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, by David K. Shipler
1986
1985
- Biography
  - The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman
- Poetry
  - Yin, by Carolyn Kizer
- General Nonfiction
  - The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two, by Studs Terkel
1984
- Fiction
  - Ironweed, by William Kennedy
- Drama
  - Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet
1983
- Fiction
  - The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- Drama
  - Night, Mother, by Marsha Norman
1982
- Fiction
  - Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike
- Drama
  - A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller
- Biography
  - Grant: A Biography, by William McFeely
1981
- Fiction
  - A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
- Drama
  - Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley
- General Nonfiction
  - Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture, by Carl E. Schorske
1980
- Fiction
  - The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer
- Drama
  - Talley's Folly, by Lanford Wilson
- Biography
  - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris
- General Nonfiction
  - Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter

1979
- Fiction
  - The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever
- Drama
  - Buried Child, by Sam Shepard
- Poetry
  - Now and Then, by Robert Penn Warren
- General Nonfiction
  - On Human Nature, by Edward O. Wilson
1978
- Biography
  - Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate
- General Nonfiction
  - The Dragons of Eden, by Carl Sagan
1977
- Drama
  - The Shadow Box, by Michael Cristofer
1976
- Fiction
  - Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow
- Biography
  - Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R. W. B. Lewis
- Poetry
  - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, by John Ashbery
1975
- Fiction
  - The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
- Drama
  - Seascape, by Edward Albee
- Poetry
  - Turtle Island, by Gary Snyder
- General Nonfiction
  - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
1974
- History
  - The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
- General Nonfiction
  - The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker
1973
- Fiction
  - The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty
- History
  - People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization, by Michael Kammen
- Biography
  - Luce and His Empire, by W. A. Swanberg
- General Nonfiction
  - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, by Frances FitzGerald
1972
- Biography
  - Eleanor and Franklin, by Joseph P. Lash
- Poetry
  - Collected Poems, by James Wright
1971
- Drama
  - The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel
- History
  - Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom, by James MacGregor Burns
- Biography
  - Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938, by Lawrance Thompson
- Poetry
  - The Carrier of Ladders, by William S. Merwin
- General Nonfiction
  - The Rising Sun, by John Toland
1970
- Fiction
  - Collected Stories, by Jean Stafford
- Drama
  - No Place To Be Somebody, by Charles Gordone
- History
  - Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department, by Dean Acheson
- Biography
  - Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams
- General Nonfiction
  - Gandhi's Truth, by Erik H. Erikson

1969
- Fiction
  - House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday
- History
  - Origins of the Fifth Amendment, by Leonard W. Levy
- General Nonfiction
  - So Human An Animal, by Rene Jules Dubos
  - The Armies Of The Night, by Norman Mailer
1968
- Fiction
  - The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron
- History
  - The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn
- Biography
  - Memoirs, by George F. Kennan
- General Nonfiction
  - The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution, by Will and Ariel Durant
1967
- Fiction
  - The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud
- Biography
  - Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan
- General Nonfiction
  - The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, by David Brion Davis
1966
- Fiction
  - Collected Stories, by Katherine Anne Porter
- Biography
  - A Thousand Days, by Arthur M. Schlesinger
1965
- Fiction
  - The Keepers Of The House, by Shirley Ann Grau
- History
  - The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879, by Irwin Unger
- Poetry
  - 77 Dream Songs, by John Berryman
- General Nonfiction
  - O Strange New World, by Howard Mumford Jones
1964
- History
  - Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, by Sumner Chilton Powell
- Biography
  - John Keats, by Walter Jackson Bate
- Poetry
  - At The End Of The Open Road, by Louis Simpson
- General Nonfiction
  - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter
1963
- Fiction
  - The Reivers, by William Faulkner
- History
  - Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878, by Constance McLaughlin Green
- Biography
  - Henry James, by Leon Edel
- General Nonfiction
  - The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman
1962
- Fiction
  - The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor
- Poetry
  - Poems, by Alan Dugan
- General Nonfiction
  - The Making of the President 1960, by Theodore H. White
1961
- Fiction
  - To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- History
  - Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, by Herbert Feis
- Poetry
  - Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades, by Phyllis McGinley
1960
- Fiction
  - Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury
- History
  - In the Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech
- Biography
  - John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison
- Poetry
  - Heart's Needle, by W. D. Snodgrass

1959
- Fiction
  - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, by Robert Lewis Taylor
- Drama
  - J. B., by Archibald Macleish
1958
- Fiction
  - A Death In The Family, by James Agee
- Poetry
  - Promises: Poems 1954-1956, by Robert Penn Warren
1957
- Drama
  - Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill
- Biography
  - Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy
1956
- Fiction
  - Andersonville, by MacKinlay Kantor
- Drama
  - Diary of Anne Frank, by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
- History
  - The Age of Reform, by Richard Hofstadter
- Poetry
  - Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring, by Elizabeth Bishop
1955
- Fiction
  - A Fable, by William Faulkner
- Drama
  - Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams
- History
  - Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, by Paul Horgan
- Biography
  - The Taft Story, by William S. White
- Poetry
  - Collected Poems, by Wallace Stevens
1954
- Drama
  - The Teahouse of the August Moon, by John Patrick
- History
  - A Stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce Catton
- Biography
  - The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A. Lindbergh
1953
- Fiction
  - The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- Drama
  - Picnic, by William Inge
- History
  - The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield
1952
- Fiction
  - The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk
- History
  - The Uprooted, by Oscar Handlin
- Biography
  - Charles Evans Hughes, by Merlo J. Pusey
- Poetry
  - Collected Poems, by Marianne Moore
1951
- Fiction
  - The Town, by Conrad Richter
- Biography
  - John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Louise Coit
- Poetry
  - Complete Poems, by Carl Sandburg
1950
- History
  - Art and Life in America, by Oliver W. Larkin
- Biography
  - John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, by Samuel Flagg Bemis

1949
- Drama
  - Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
- History
  - The Disruption of American Democracy, by Roy Franklin Nichols
- Biography
  - Roosevelt and Hopkins, by Robert E. Sherwood
1948
- Fiction
  - Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener
- Drama
  - A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
- History
  - Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard Devoto
- Poetry
  - The Age of Anxiety, by W. H. Auden
1947
- Novel
  - All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
- Poetry
  - Lord Weary's Castle, by Robert Lowell
1946
- History
  - The Age of Jackson, by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
1945
- Novel
  - A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey
1944
- History
  - The Growth of American Thought, by Merle Curti
- Poetry
  - Western Star, by Stephen Vincent Benét
1943
1942
- History
  - Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech
- Biography
  - Crusader in Crinoline, by Forrest Wilson
1941
- History
  - The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860, by Marcus Lee Hansen
1940
- Novel
  - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- History
  - Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, by Carl Sandburg
- Poetry
  - Collected Poems, by Mark Van Doren

1939
- Novel
  - The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Drama
  - Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert E. Sherwood
- Biography
  - Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren
1938
- Novel
  - The Late George Apley, by John Phillips Marquand
- Drama
  - Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
- History
  - The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900, by Paul Herman Buck
- Biography
  - The Life of Andrew Jackson, by Marquis James
1937
1935
- Novel
  - Now in November, by Josephine Winslow Johnson
- History
  - The Colonial Period of American History, by Charles McLean Andrews
- Biography
  - R. E. Lee, by Douglas S. Freeman
1934
- History
  - The People's Choice, by Herbert Agar
1933
- History
  - The Significance of Sections in American History, by Frederick J. Turner
- Biography
  - Grover Cleveland, by Allan Nevins
1932
- Novel
  - The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
- Biography
  - Theodore Roosevelt, by Henry F. Pringle
1931
- Poetry
  - Collected Poems, by Robert Frost
1930
- Novel
  - Laughing Boy, by Oliver La Farge
- Drama
  - The Green Pastures, by Marc Connelly
- Biography
  - The Raven, by Marquis James

1929
- Poetry
  - John Browns Body, by Stephen Vincent Benét
1928
- Novel
  - The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder
- Drama
  - Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill
- Poetry
  - Tristram, by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1926
- Novel
  - Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis
1925
- Novel
  - So Big, by Edna Ferber
- History
  - History of the American Frontier, by Frederic L. Paxson
1923
- History
  - The Supreme Court in United States History, by Charles Warren
1922
- Novel
  - Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington
- Drama
  - Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill
- Poetry
  - Collected Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1921
- Novel
  - The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
- Biography
  - The Americanization of Edward Bok, by Edward Bok
1920
- Drama
  - Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O'Neill
- History
  - The War with Mexico, by Justin H. Smith
- Biography
  - The Life of John Marshall, by Albert J. Beveridge

1919
- Novel
  - The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
- Biography
  - The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams