1910s
1917: no award given
1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1920s
1920: no award given
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1930s
1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940s
1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1941: no award given [2]
1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1946: no award given
1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1950s
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1954: No award given
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1957: No award given[3]
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee (posthumous win)
1960s
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner (posthumous win)
1964: No award given
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1970s
1971: No award given[4]
1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1974: No award given [5]
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1977: No award given [6]
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980s
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (posthumous win)
1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990s
1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2000s
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010s
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Pulitzer Prize 2012
When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced last April 19th, the committee declined to choose a winner for fiction. It's the 11th time in the prize's history that has happened, but the last time was in 1977, so the lack of an award came as a shock.
Bestselling novelist and new independent bookstore owner Ann Patchett wrote in the New York Times, "As a novelist and the author of an eligible book, I do not love this. It's fine to lose to someone, and galling to lose to no one. Still, it is infinitely more galling to me as a reader, because there were so many good books published this year."
And the judges agree. The Pulitzer Prizes are selected in a two-tier system, in which judges recommend a selection of finalists to the board overseeing the prizes. The board then picks a winner -- or, as in the case of the 2012 fiction prize, picks none.
The three judges in fiction this year were Susan Larson, former books editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune; Maureen Corrigan, a Georgetown University professor and a book critic on the public-radio show "Fresh Air," and novelist Michael Cunningham, himself a former winner.
The three books they had sent to the board as finalists were "Train Dreams" by Denis Johnson, "Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell, and "The Pale King" by David Foster Wallace.
While Cunningham has kept mum, Corrigan and Larson have spoken out.
Larson appeared on NPR, saying that she and the other judges were, "shocked ... angry ... and very disappointed."
In Thursday's Washington Post, Corrigan elaborated:
Like everyone else, we three jurors found out Monday that there would be no 2012 prize in fiction. That terrible news capped what was otherwise the greatest honor of my career as a book critic and professor of literature. ...
We three members of the Pulitzer jury were not charged with selecting the lengthiest, or the hoariest, or the most polished works of American fiction. We were not told to stick to the middlebrow, nor did we egg each other on to aim for the edgy. Our directive was to nominate "distinguished" works of fiction, published in book form in 2011 that, ideally, spoke to American themes. And 2011 saw a bounty of good novels. We unanimously agreed on our three nominees. In our collective judgment, these very different novels are three very distinguished works of fiction.
Corrigan suggested structural changes that might ameliorate the no-Pulitzer situation in the future.
Another idea would simply be to catch up with the recent books of fiction that have won in the last round of literary prizes, big and small: Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," which won the National Book Award; the story collection "Binocular Vision" by Edith Pearlman, the National Book Critics Circle Award (disclosure: I'm on the board); Julian Barnes' "The Sense of An Ending," which won the Man Booker Prize; "The Buddha in the Attic" by Julie Otsuka, which won the PEN/Faulkner Prize; Steven Millhauser's "We Others: New & Selected Stories," which won the Story Prize; "Please Look After Mom," which won the Man Asian Literary Prize; or Patrick DeWitt's "The Sisters Brothers," which won the Morning News' Tournament of Books.
Pulitzer Prize 2012 Finalists
Denis Johnson
Karen Russell
David Foster Wallace
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