100 Years of Pulitzer Fiction Prizes and a New Way to Submit an Entry to the Competition

Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University, New York City; Photo by John Smock

It’s the Pulitzer’s 100th year of honoring excellence in journalism and the arts.

pulitzer.org Use the hashtag #Pulitzer100 on social media to let us know how you’re celebrating! Note: Full list of questions that will replace journalism entry letters in 2017 Pulitzer Prize contest

The Pulitzer Prizes Fiction Winners The First 50 Years: 1917-1966 Pulitzer Fiction Checklist

 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

 1965 The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau;  1964 No award given

 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 given

 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner,  1954 No award given

 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

 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

 1947 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren; 1946 No award given

 1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

 1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin

 1943 Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair

 1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow; 1941 No award given

 1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

 1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand

 1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

 1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis

 1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson

 1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller

 1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling

 1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

 1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes

 1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge

 1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin

 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

 1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield

 1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

 1925 So Big by Edna Ferber

 1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

 1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather

 1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

 1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; 1920 No award given

 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

 1918 His Family by Ernest Poole; 1917 No award given