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The Pulitzer Prize

2003
Middlesex
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides has won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) for Middlesex. Other 2003 winners include Master of the Senate, by Robert A. Caro, in the Biography category, and A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power in General Non-Fiction. See the full list at www.pulitzer.org.

The much-coveted Pulitzer Prize, named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, honours books that depict the positive and negative aspects of the human condition, with preference going to those which portray American life. Create your own collection of Pulitzer Prize winners. (Click on a title to search the abebooks.com database for that book.) (Books listed are winners in the "Fiction" category.)



Current Winners Past Winners

Empire Falls2002
Empire Falls
Richard Russo



Interpreter of Maladies2000
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon



The Hours1999
The Hours
Michael Cunningham

1998 - American Pastoral, Philip Roth
1997
- Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Stephen Millhauser
1996 - Independence Day Richard Ford
1995 - The Stone Diaries Carol Shields
1994 - The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler
1992 - A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
1991 - Rabbit at Rest John Updike
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos
1989 - Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler
1988 - Beloved Toni Morrison
1987 - A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor
1986 - Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
1985 - Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie
1984 - Ironweed William Kennedy
1983 - The Color Purple Alice Walker
1982 - Rabbit is Rich John Updike
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
1980 - The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever
1978 - Elbow Room James Alan McPherson
1977 - No Award
1976 - Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow
1975 - The Killer Angels Michael Shaara
1974 - No Award
1973 - The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
1972 - Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner
1971 - No Award
1970 - Collected Stories Jean Stafford
1969 - House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
1967 - The Fixer Bernard Malamud
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers of the House Shirley Ann Grau
1964 - No Award
1963 - The Reivers William Faulkner
1962 - The Edge of Sadness Edwin O’Connor
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
1960 - Advise and Consent Allen Drury
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Robert Lewis Taylor
1958 - A Death in the Family James Agee
1957 - No Award
1956 - Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor
1955 - A Fable William Faulkner
1954 - No Award
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
1952 - The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk
1951 - The Town Conrad Richter
1950 - The Way West A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1949 - Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener

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