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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

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Fiction
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2009	Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
2008	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
2007	The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006	March by Geraldine Brooks
2005	Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004	The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003	Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002	Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2000	Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999	The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998	American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1996	Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995	The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994	The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992	A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991	Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1990	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1989	Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1988	Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987	A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1986	Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1985	Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1984	Ironweed by William Kennedy
1983	The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982	Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1981	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980	The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1979	The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1978	Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1977	No Award
1976	Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1975	The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1974	No Award
1973	The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972	Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1971	No Award
1970	Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1969	House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1968	The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966	Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965	The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

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Non-Fiction
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2009	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon
2008	The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, by Saul Friedländer
2007	The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
2006	Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
2005	Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
2004	Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
2003	"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
2002	Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
2001	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
2000	Embracing Defeat by John Dower
1999	Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
1998	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
1997	Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
1996	The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
1995	The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
1994	Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
1993	Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
1992	The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
1991	The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
1990	And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamsoni
1989	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
1988	The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1987	Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler
1986	Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas

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Biography
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2009	American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham
2008	Eden's Outcasts: the Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, by John Matteson
2007	The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
2006	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2005	de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2004	Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
2003	Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
2002	John Adams by David McCullough
2001	W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
2000	Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
1999	Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
1998	Personal History by Katharine Graham
1997	Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
1996	God: A Biography by Jack Miles
1995	Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
1994	W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
1993	Truman by David McCullough
1992	Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
1991	Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1990	Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
1989	Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann
1988	Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
1987	Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
1986	Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
1985	The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
1984	Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan
1983	Growing Up by Russell Baker
1982	Grant: A Biography by William McFeely
1981	Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
1980	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
1979	Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker No copy available.
1978	Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
1977	A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
1976	Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
1975	The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
1974	O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer
1973	Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
1972	Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
1971	Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson No copy available.
1970	Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
1969	The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1968	Memoirs by George F. Kennan
1967	Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan
1966	A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1965	Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels

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History
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2009	The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008	What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe
2007	The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2006	Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
2005	Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2004	A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
2003	An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
2002	The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2001	Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2000	Freedom from Fear by David Kennedy
1999	Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
1998	Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
1997	Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1996	William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor No copy available.
1995	No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1994	No Award
1993	The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1992	The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr. No copy available.
1991	A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1990	In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1989	Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
1988	The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1976 by Robert Bruce
1987	Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn
1986	...the Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall

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Drama
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2009	Ruined, by Lynn Nottage No copy available.
2008	August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts
2007	Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
2006	No award
2005	Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley
2004	I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
2003	Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
2002	Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
2001	Proof by David Auburn
2000	Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies
1999	Wit by Margaret Edson
1998	How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
1997	No Award
1996	Rent by Jonathan Larson
1995	The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote
1994	Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
1993	Angels in America by Tony Kushner
1992	The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan
1991	Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
1990	The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
1989	The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
1988	Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
1987	Fences by August Wilson
1986	No Award

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Poetry
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2009	The Shadow of Sirius, byu W.S. Merwin
2008	Time and Materials: Poems, 1997 - 2005, by Robert Hass Failure, by Philip Schultz
2007	Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway
2006	Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
2005	Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
2004	Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
2003	Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
2002	Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
2001	Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
2000	Repair by C.K. Williams
1999	Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
1998	Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
1997	Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
1996	The Dream of the Unified Field, by Jorie Graham
1995	The Simple Truth by Philip Levine
1994	Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa
1993	The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
1992	Selected Poems by James Tate
1991	Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
1990	The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
1989	New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
1988	Partial Accounts by William Meredith
1987	Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
1986	The Flying Change by Henry Taylor

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