1950

• The Way West by A. B. Guthrie
  1950 · Pulitzer Prizes · Fiction
• South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan
  1950 · Pulitzer Prizes · Drama
• John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
  1950 · Pulitzer Prizes · Biography
• Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
  1950 · Pulitzer Prizes · History
• Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
  1950 · Pulitzer Prizes · Poetry