Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prizes in Letters, Drama & Music honor outstanding works in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, biography, memoir, history, and music. Explore winners by category and year below.
- To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
- Purpose
- New and Selected Poems
- Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
- James
- Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
- Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
- Tripas: Poems
- Primary Trust
- No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- Night Watch
- Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
- King: A Life
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
- Trust
- Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
- Stay True
- His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
- G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
- Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
- English
- Demon Copperhead
- frank: sonnets
- The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
- Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Fat Ham
- Cuba: An American History
- Covered with Night
- Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
- Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
- The Night Watchman
- The Hot Wing King
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
- Postcolonial Love Poem
- Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
- The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
- The Tradition
- The Nickel Boys
- The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
- Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
- Sontag: Her Life and Work
- A Strange Loop
- The Overstory
- The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
- Fairview
- Be With
- Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
- The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
- Less
- Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
- Cost of Living
- The Underground Railroad
- The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- Sweat
- Olio
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
- The Sympathizer
- Ozone Journal
- Hamilton
- Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
- Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
- The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
- Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
- Digest
- Between Riverside and Crazy
- All the Light We Cannot See
- Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
- The Goldfinch
- The Flick
- Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
- 3 Sections
- The Orphan Master's Son
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Stag's Leap
- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- Disgraced
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- Water by the Spoonful
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- No Award
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
- Life on Mars
- George F. Kennan: An American Life
- Washington : A Life
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
- Clybourne Park
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Versed
- Tinkers
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
- Next to Normal
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
- The Shadow of Sirius
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
- Ruined
- Olive Kitteridge
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
- Time and Materials
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Failure
- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
- August: Osage County
- The Road
- The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
- The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Rabbit Hole
- Native Guard
- Polio: An American Story
- No Award
- March
- Late Wife
- Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- de Kooning: An American Master
- Washington's Crossing
- Gilead
- Ghost Wars
- Doubt, a parable
- Delights & Shadows
- Walking to Martha's Vineyard
- The Known World
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
- I Am My Own Wife
- Gulag: A History
- A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
- Moy Sand and Gravel
- Middlesex
- Master of the Senate
- Anna in the Tropics
- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
- "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide
- Topdog/Underdog
- The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
- Practical Gods
- John Adams
- Empire Falls
- Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
- W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Proof
- Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
- Different Hours
- Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
- Repair
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
- Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
- Dinner With Friends
- Wit
- The Hours
- Lindbergh
- Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
- Blizzard of One
- Annals of the Former World
- Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
- Personal History
- How I Learned to Drive
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Black Zodiac
- American Pastoral
- Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
- No Award
- Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
- Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
- Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
- William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
- The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
- The Dream of the Unified Field
- Rent
- Independence Day
- God: A Biography
- The Young Man From Atlanta
- The Stone Diaries
- The Simple Truth
- The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919
- Three Tall Women
- The Shipping News
- Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
- Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire
- Truman
- The Wild Iris
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
- The Kentucky Cycle
- The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
- Selected Poems
- Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
- A Thousand Acres
- The Ants
- Rabbit At Rest
- Near Changes
- Lost in Yonkers
- Jackson Pollock
- A Midwife's Tale
- The World Doesn't End
- The Piano Lesson
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Machiavelli in Hell
- In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
- And Their Children After Them
- The Heidi Chronicles
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
- Oscar Wilde
- New and Collected Poems
- Breathing Lessons
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876
- Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
- Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Beloved
- Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
- Thomas and Beulah
- Fences
- Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
- A Summons to Memphis
- The Flying Change
- Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
- Louise Bogan: A Portrait
- Lonesome Dove
- Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
- ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
- Yin
- The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
- The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
- Sunday in the Park With George
- Prophets of Regulation
- Foreign Affairs
- The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
- Ironweed
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
- American Primitive
- The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
- The Color Purple
- Selected Poems
- Night, Mother
- Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
- Growing Up
- The Soul of a New Machine
- The Collected Poems
- Rabbit Is Rich
- Mary Chesnut's Civil War
- Grant: A Biography
- A Soldier's Play
- The Morning of the Poem
- Peter the Great: His Life and World
- Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture
- Crimes of the Heart
- American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- The Executioner's Song
- Talley's Folly
- Selected Poems
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
- Been in the Storm So Long
- The Stories of John Cheever
- The Dred Scott Case
- On Human Nature
- Now and Then
- Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
- Buried Child
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
- The Gin Game
- The Dragons of Eden
- Samuel Johnson
- Elbow Room
- Collected Poems
- The Shadow Box
- The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
- Divine Comedies
- Beautiful Swimmers
- A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence
- Why Survive? Being Old In America
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
- Lamy of Santa Fe
- Humboldt's Gift
- Edith Wharton: A Biography
- A Chorus Line
- Turtle Island
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- The Killer Angels
- Seascape
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V
- The Dolphin
- The Denial of Death
- The Americans: The Democratic Experience
- O'Neill, Son and Artist
- Up Country
- The Optimist's Daughter
- That Championship Season
- People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
- Luce and His Empire
- Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
- Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
- Neither Black Nor White
- Eleanor and Franklin
- Collected Poems
- Angle of Repose
- The Rising Sun
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
- The Carrier of Ladders
- Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
- Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938
- Untitled Subjects
- Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department
- No Place To Be Somebody
- Huey Long
- Gandhi's Truth
- Collected Stories
- The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
- The Great White Hope
- The Armies Of The Night
- So Human An Animal
- Origins of the Fifth Amendment
- Of Being Numerous
- House Made of Dawn
- The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- The Hard Hours
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Memoirs
- The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
- The Fixer
- Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
- Live or Die
- Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
- A Delicate Balance
- Wandering Through Winter
- The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
- Selected Poems
- Collected Stories
- A Thousand Days
- The Subject Was Roses
- The Keepers Of The House
- The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879
- O Strange New World
- Henry Adams, three volumes
- 77 Dream Songs
- Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
- No award given
- John Keats
- At The End Of The Open Road
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
- The Reivers
- The Guns of August
- Pictures from Brueghel
- Henry James
- The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766
- The Making of the President 1960
- The Edge of Sadness
- Poems
- How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
- Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
- All The Way Home
- John Paul Jones
- In the Days of McKinley
- Heart's Needle
- Fiorello!
- Advise and Consent
- Woodrow Wilson
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
- The Republican Era: 1869-1901
- Selected Poems 1928-1958
- J. B.
- Promises: Poems 1954-1956
- Look Homeward, Angel
- George Washington, Volumes I-VII
- Banks and Politics in America
- A Death In The Family
- Things of This World
- Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920
- Profiles in Courage
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- The Age of Reform
- Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring
- Diary of Anne Frank
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe
- Andersonville
- The Taft Story
- Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
- Collected Poems
- Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
- A Fable
- The Waking
- The Teahouse of the August Moon
- The Spirit of St. Louis
- A Stillness at Appomattox
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Era of Good Feelings
- Picnic
- Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803
- Collected Poems 1917-1952
- The Uprooted
- The Shrike
- The Caine Mutiny
- Collected Poems
- Charles Evans Hughes
- The Town
- The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840
- John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
- Complete Poems
- The Way West
- South Pacific
- John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
- Art and Life in America
- Annie Allen
- The Disruption of American Democracy
- Terror and Decorum
- Roosevelt and Hopkins
- Guard of Honor
- Death of a Salesman
- The Age of Anxiety
- Tales of the South Pacific
- Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
- Across the Wide Missouri
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- The Autobiography of William Allen White
- Scientists Against Time
- Lord Weary's Castle
- All the King's Men
- The Age of Jackson
- State of the Union
- Son of the Wilderness
- V-Letter and Other Poems
- Unfinished Business
- Harvey
- George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
- A Bell for Adano
- Western Star
- The Growth of American Thought
- The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse
- Journey in the Dark
- The Skin of Our Teeth
- Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
- Dragon's Teeth
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
- A Witness Tree
- The Dust Which Is God
- Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
- In This Our Life
- Crusader in Crinoline
- There Shall Be No Night
- The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
- Sunderland Capture
- Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography
- Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII
- The Time of Your Life
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Collected Poems
- Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
- The Yearling
- Selected Poems
- Benjamin Franklin
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- A History of American Magazines
- The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
- The Life of Andrew Jackson
- The Late George Apley
- Pedlar's Progress
- Our Town
- Cold Morning Sky
- You Can't Take It With You
- The Flowering of New England 1815-1865
- Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration
- Gone With the Wind
- A Further Range
- The Thought and Character of William James: As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes, Together with His Published Writings
- Strange Holiness
- Idiots Delight
- Honey in the Horn
- A Constitutional History of the United States
- The Old Maid
- The Colonial Period of American History
- R. E. Lee
- Now in November
- Bright Ambush
- The People's Choice
- Men in White
- Lamb in His Bosom
- John Hay
- Collected Verse
- The Store
- The Significance of Sections in American History
- Grover Cleveland
- Conquistador
- Both Your Houses
- Theodore Roosevelt
- The Good Earth
- The Flowering Stone
- Of Thee I Sing
- My Experiences in the World War
- Years of Grace
- The Coming of the War 1914
- Collected Poems
- Charles W. Eliot
- Alison's House
- The Raven
- The Green Pastures
- The Founding of the American Republic, Volume II: The War of Independence: American Phase
- Selected Poems
- Laughing Boy
- The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
- The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
- Street Scene
- Scarlet Sister Mary
- John Browns Body
- Tristram
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
- Strange Interlude
- Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols.
- Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
- Pinckney's Treaty
- In Abraham's Bosom
- Fiddler's Farewell
- Early Autumn
- What's O'Clock
- The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.
- Craig's Wife
- Arrowsmith
- A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865
- They Knew What They Wanted
- The Man Who Died Twice
- So Big
- History of the American Frontier
- Barrett Wendell and His Letters
- The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation
- The Able McLaughlins
- New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
- Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
- From Immigrant to Inventor
- The Supreme Court in United States History
- The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
- The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany
- One of Ours
- Icebound
- The Founding of New England
- Collected Poems
- Anna Christie
- Alice Adams
- A Daughter of the Middle Border
- The Victory at Sea
- The Americanization of Edward Bok
- The Age of Innocence
- Miss Lulu Bett
- The War with Mexico
- The Life of John Marshall
- Beyond the Horizon
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- The Education of Henry Adams
- Old Road to Paradise
- Corn Huskers
- Why Marry?
- Love Songs
- History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
- His Family
- Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
- With Americans of Past and Present Days
- Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910