Pulitzer Prize For Fiction, including: The Color Purple, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Old Man And The Sea, The Fixer (malamud Novel), Ironweed, Lonesome ... Shipping News, The Killer Angels, The Reivers

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It originated as the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, which was awarded between 1918 and 1947. * 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington * 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton * 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather * 1925: So Big by Edna Ferber * 1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield * 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin * 1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes * 1933: The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling * 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson * 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell * 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings * 1941: no award given * 1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair * 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey * 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren * 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens * 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter * 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway * 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner * 1957: No award given * 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor * 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee * 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner * 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau * 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud * 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday * 1971: No award given * 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty * 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara * 1977: No award given * 1979: