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| year | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| *Awarded posthumously. | ||
| **Freeman died in 1953 after completing vol. 1–6; Carroll and Ashworth continued his work with vol. 7. | ||
| ***Awarded posthumously to Les Payne. | ||
| 1917 | Julia Ward Howe | Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maude Howe Elliott; assisted by Florence Howe Hall |
| 1918 | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed: A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own Writings | William Cabell Bruce |
| 1919 | The Education of Henry Adams* | Henry Adams |
| 1920 | The Life of John Marshall, 4 vol. | Albert J. Beveridge |
| 1921 | The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After | Edward Bok |
| 1922 | A Daughter of the Middle Border | Hamlin Garland |
| 1923 | The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page | Burton J. Hendrick |
| 1924 | From Immigrant to Inventor | Michael Idvorsky Pupin |
| 1925 | Barrett Wendell and His Letters | M.A. De Wolfe Howe |
| 1926 | The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vol. | Harvey Cushing |
| 1927 | Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative | Emory Holloway |
| 1928 | The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas | Charles Edward Russell |
| 1929 | The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1855–1913 | Burton J. Hendrick |
| 1930 | The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston | Marquis James |
| 1931 | Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, 1869–1909, 2 vol. | Henry James |
| 1932 | Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography | Henry F. Pringle |
| 1933 | Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage | Allan Nevins |
| 1934 | John Hay: From Poetry to Politics | Tyler Dennett |
| 1935 | R.E. Lee: A Biography, 4 vol. | Douglas S. Freeman |
| 1936 | The Thought and Character of William James, As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes, Together with His Published Writings, 2 vol. | Ralph Barton Perry |
| 1937 | Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration | Allan Nevins |
| 1938 | Andrew Jackson, 2 vol. | Marquis James |
| Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott | Odell Shepard | |
| 1939 | Benjamin Franklin | Carl Van Doren |
| 1940 | Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters: War Leader, vol. 7; Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters: Armistice, vol. 8 | Ray Stannard Baker |
| 1941 | Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography | Ola Elizabeth Winslow |
| 1942 | Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe | Forrest Wilson |
| 1943 | Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, 2 vol. | Samuel Eliot Morison |
| 1944 | The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F.B. Morse | Carleton Mabee |
| 1945 | George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel | Russell Blaine Nye |
| 1946 | Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir | Linnie Marsh Wolfe |
| 1947 | The Autobiography of William Allen White | William Allen White |
| 1948 | Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow | Margaret Clapp |
| 1949 | Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1950 | John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy | Samuel Flagg Bemis |
| 1951 | John C. Calhoun: American Portrait | Margaret Louise Coit |
| 1952 | Charles Evans Hughes, 2 vol. | Merlo J. Pusey |
| 1953 | Edmund Pendleton, 1721–1803: A Biography, 2 vol. | David J. Mays |
| 1954 | The Spirit of St. Louis | Charles A. Lindbergh |
| 1955 | The Taft Story | William S. White |
| 1956 | Benjamin Henry Latrobe | Talbot Faulkner Hamlin |
| 1957 | Profiles in Courage | John F. Kennedy |
| 1958 | George Washington, 7 vol.** | Douglas Southall Freeman, John Alexander Carroll, and Mary Wells Ashworth |
| 1959 | Woodrow Wilson: American Prophet, vol. 1 | Arthur Walworth |
| 1960 | John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography | Samuel Eliot Morison |
| 1961 | Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War | David Herbert Donald |
| 1962 | no award | |
| 1963 | Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870–1883, vol. 2; Henry James: The Middle Years, 1882–1895, vol. 3 | Leon Edel |
| 1964 | John Keats | Walter Jackson Bate |
| 1965 | Henry Adams, 3 vol. | Ernest Samuels |
| 1966 | A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
| 1967 | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain | Justin Kaplan |
| 1968 | Memoirs: 1925–1950 | George F. Kennan |
| 1969 | The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends | Benjamin Lawrence Reid |
| 1970 | Huey Long | T. Harry Williams |
| 1971 | Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938 | Lawrance Thompson |
| 1972 | Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers | Joseph P. Lash |
| 1973 | Luce and His Empire | W.A. Swanberg |
| 1974 | O'Neill, Son and Artist | Louis Sheaffer |
| 1975 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York | Robert A. Caro |
| 1976 | Edith Wharton: A Biography | R.W.B. Lewis |
| 1977 | A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence | John E. Mack |
| 1978 | Samuel Johnson | Walter Jackson Bate |
| 1979 | Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews | Leonard Baker |
| 1980 | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | Edmund Morris |
| 1981 | Peter the Great: His Life and World | Robert K. Massie |
| 1982 | Grant: A Biography | William McFeely |
| 1983 | Growing Up | Russell Baker |
| 1984 | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 | Louis R. Harlan |
| 1985 | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather | Kenneth Silverman |
| 1986 | Louise Bogan: A Portrait | Elizabeth Frank |
| 1987 | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference | David J. Garrow |
| 1988 | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe | David Herbert Donald |
| 1989 | Oscar Wilde* | Richard Ellmann |
| 1990 | Machiavelli in Hell | Sebastian de Grazia |
| 1991 | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga | Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith |
| 1992 | Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet | Lewis B. Puller, Jr. |
| 1993 | Truman | David McCullough |
| 1994 | W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 | David Levering Lewis |
| 1995 | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life | Joan D. Hedrick |
| 1996 | God: A Biography | Jack Miles |
| 1997 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | Frank McCourt |
| 1998 | Personal History | Katharine Graham |
| 1999 | Lindbergh | A. Scott Berg |
| 2000 | Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) | Stacy Schiff |
| 2001 | W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 | David Levering Lewis |
| 2002 | John Adams | David McCullough |
| 2003 | The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, vol. 3 | Robert A. Caro |
| 2004 | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | William Taubman |
| 2005 | De Kooning: An American Master | Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan |
| 2006 | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin |
| 2007 | The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher | Debby Applegate |
| 2008 | Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father | John Matteson |
| 2009 | American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House | Jon Meacham |
| 2010 | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt | T.J. Stiles |
| 2011 | Washington: A Life | Ron Chernow |
| 2012 | George F. Kennan: An American Life | John Lewis Gaddis |
| 2013 | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss |
| 2014 | Margaret Fuller: A New American Life | Megan Marshall |
| 2015 | The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe | David I. Kertzer |
| 2016 | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life | William Finnegan |
| 2017 | The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between | Hisham Matar |
| 2018 | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Caroline Fraser |
| 2019 | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | Jeffrey C. Stewart |
| 2020 | Sontag: Her Life and Work | Benjamin Moser |
| 2021 | The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X*** | Les Payne and Tamara Payne |
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for drama
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for drama are listed in the table.
| year | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| *Awarded posthumously. | ||
| 1917 | no award | |
| 1918 | Why Marry? | Jesse Lynch Williams |
| 1919 | no award | |
| 1920 | Beyond the Horizon | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1921 | Miss Lulu Bett | Zona Gale |
| 1922 | Anna Christie | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1923 | Icebound | Owen Davis |
| 1924 | Hell-Bent fer Heaven | Hatcher Hughes |
| 1925 | They Knew What They Wanted | Sidney Howard |
| 1926 | Craig's Wife | George Kelly |
| 1927 | In Abraham's Bosom | Paul Green |
| 1928 | Strange Interlude | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1929 | Street Scene | Elmer L. Rice |
| 1930 | The Green Pastures | Marc Connelly |
| 1931 | Alison's House | Susan Glaspell |
| 1932 | Of Thee I Sing | George S. Kaufman (writer), Morrie Ryskind (writer), and Ira Gershwin (lyricist) |
| 1933 | Both Your Houses | Maxwell Anderson |
| 1934 | Men in White | Sidney Kingsley |
| 1935 | The Old Maid | Zoe Akins |
| 1936 | Idiot's Delight | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1937 | You Can't Take It with You | Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman |
| 1938 | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| 1939 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1940 | The Time of Your Life | William Saroyan |
| 1941 | There Shall Be No Night | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1942 | no award | |
| 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder |
| 1944 | no award | |
| 1945 | Harvey | Mary Chase |
| 1946 | State of the Union | Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay |
| 1947 | no award | |
| 1948 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| 1949 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| 1950 | South Pacific | Richard Rodgers (composer), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyricist/writer), and Joshua Logan (writer) |
| 1951 | no award | |
| 1952 | The Shrike | Joseph Kramm |
| 1953 | Picnic | William Inge |
| 1954 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | John Patrick |
| 1955 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
| 1956 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich |
| 1957 | Long Day's Journey into Night* | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1958 | Look Homeward, Angel | Ketti Frings |
| 1959 | J.B. | Archibald MacLeish |
| 1960 | Fiorello! | Jerome Weidman (writer), George Abbott (writer), Jerry Bock (composer), and Sheldon Harnick (lyricist) |
| 1961 | All the Way Home | Tad Mosel |
| 1962 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Frank Loesser (composer/lyricist) and Abe Burrows (writer) |
| 1963 | no award | |
| 1964 | no award | |
| 1965 | The Subject Was Roses | Frank D. Gilroy |
| 1966 | no award | |
| 1967 | A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee |
| 1968 | no award | |
| 1969 | The Great White Hope | Howard Sackler |
| 1970 | No Place to Be Somebody | Charles Gordone |
| 1971 | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Paul Zindel |
| 1972 | no award | |
| 1973 | That Championship Season | Jason Miller |
| 1974 | no award | |
| 1975 | Seascape | Edward Albee |
| 1976 | A Chorus Line | Michael Bennett (choreographer/director), James Kirkwood (writer), Nicholas Dante (writer), Marvin Hamlisch (composer), and Edward Kleban (lyricist) |
| 1977 | The Shadow Box | Michael Cristofer |
| 1978 | The Gin Game | Donald L. Coburn |
| 1979 | Buried Child | Sam Shepard |
| 1980 | Talley's Folly | Lanford Wilson |
| 1981 | Crimes of the Heart | Beth Henley |
| 1982 | A Soldier's Play | Charles Fuller |
| 1983 | 'Night, Mother | Marsha Norman |
| 1984 | Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
| 1985 | Sunday in the Park with George | Stephen Sondheim (composer/lyricist) and James Lapine (writer) |
| 1986 | no award | |
| 1987 | Fences | August Wilson |
| 1988 | Driving Miss Daisy | Alfred Uhry |
| 1989 | The Heidi Chronicles | Wendy Wasserstein |
| 1990 | The Piano Lesson | August Wilson |
| 1991 | Lost in Yonkers | Neil Simon |
| 1992 | The Kentucky Cycle | Robert Schenkkan |
| 1993 | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Tony Kushner |
| 1994 | Three Tall Women | Edward Albee |
| 1995 | The Young Man from Atlanta | Horton Foote |
| 1996 | Rent* | Jonathan Larson |
| 1997 | no award | |
| 1998 | How I Learned to Drive | Paula Vogel |
| 1999 | Wit | Margaret Edson |
| 2000 | Dinner with Friends | Donald Margulies |
| 2001 | Proof | David Auburn |
| 2002 | Topdog/Underdog | Suzan-Lori Parks |
| 2003 | Anna in the Tropics | Nilo Cruz |
| 2004 | I Am My Own Wife | Doug Wright |
| 2005 | Doubt: A Parable | John Patrick Shanley |
| 2006 | no award | |
| 2007 | Rabbit Hole | David Lindsay-Abaire |
| 2008 | August: Osage County | Tracy Letts |
| 2009 | Ruined | Lynn Nottage |
| 2010 | Next to Normal | Tom Kitt (composer) and Brian Yorkey (writer/lyricist) |
| 2011 | Clybourne Park | Bruce Norris |
| 2012 | Water by the Spoonful | Quiara Alegría Hudes |
| 2013 | Disgraced | Ayad Akhtar |
| 2014 | The Flick | Annie Baker |
| 2015 | Between Riverside and Crazy | Stephen Adly Guirgis |
| 2016 | Hamilton | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2017 | Sweat | Lynn Nottage |
| 2018 | Cost of Living | Martyna Majok |
| 2019 | Fairview | Jackie Sibblies Drury |
| 2020 | A Strange Loop | Michael R. Jackson |
| 2021 | The Hot Wing King | Katori Hall |
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction are listed in the table.
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| year | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| *Prior to 1948 the category was "novel" rather than fiction. | ||
| **Work published and prize awarded posthumously. | ||
| 1917 | no award | |
| 1918 | His Family | Ernest Poole |
| 1919 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |
| 1920 | no award | |
| 1921 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 1922 | Alice Adams | Booth Tarkington |
| 1923 | One of Ours | Willa Cather |
| 1924 | The Able McLaughlins | Margaret Wilson |
| 1925 | So Big | Edna Ferber |
| 1926 | Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis (declined) |
| 1927 | | Louis Bromfield |
| 1928 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary | Julia Peterkin |
| 1930 | Laughing Boy | Oliver La Farge |
| 1931 | Years of Grace | Margaret Ayer Barnes |
| 1932 | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| 1933 | The Store | T.S. Stribling |
| 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom | Caroline Miller |
| 1935 | Now in November | Josephine Winslow Johnson |
| 1936 | Honey in the Horn | H.L. Davis |
| 1937 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 1938 | The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir | J.P. Marquand |
| 1939 | The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 1941 | no award | |
| 1942 | In This Our Life | Ellen Glasgow |
| 1943 | Dragon's Teeth | Upton Sinclair |
| 1944 | Journey in the Dark | Martin Flavin |
| 1945 | A Bell for Adano | John Hersey |
| 1946 | no award | |
| 1947 | All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | James A. Michener |
| 1949 | Guard of Honor | James Gould Cozzens |
| 1950 | The Way West | A.B. Guthrie, Jr. |
| 1951 | The Town | Conrad Richter |
| 1952 | The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II | Herman Wouk |
| 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1954 | no award | |
| 1955 | A Fable | William Faulkner |
| 1956 | Andersonville | MacKinlay Kantor |
| 1957 | no award | |
| 1958 | A Death in the Family** | James Agee |
| 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | Robert Lewis Taylor |
| 1960 | Advise and Consent | Allen Drury |
| 1961 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | Edwin O'Connor |
| 1963 | The Reivers: A Reminiscence | William Faulkner |
| 1964 | no award | |
| 1965 | The Keepers of the House | Shirley Ann Grau |
| 1966 | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1967 | The Fixer | Bernard Malamud |
| 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron |
| 1969 | House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday |
| 1970 | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford | Jean Stafford |
| 1971 | no award | |
| 1972 | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner |
| 1973 | The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| 1974 | no award | |
| 1975 | The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
| 1976 | Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow |
| 1977 | no award | |
| 1978 | Elbow Room | James Alan McPherson |
| 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever | John Cheever |
| 1980 | The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer |
| 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces** | John Kennedy Toole |
| 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike |
| 1983 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| 1984 | Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| 1985 | Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie |
| 1986 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry |
| 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | Peter Taylor |
| 1988 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 1989 | Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler |
| 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Oscar Hijuelos |
| 1991 | Rabbit at Rest | John Updike |
| 1992 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories | Robert Olen Butler |
| 1994 | The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx |
| 1995 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
| 1996 | Independence Day | Richard Ford |
| 1997 | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer | Steven Millhauser |
| 1998 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| 1999 | The Hours | Michael Cunningham |
| 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies: Stories | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon |
| 2002 | Empire Falls | Richard Russo |
| 2003 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 2004 | The Known World | Edward P. Jones |
| 2005 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| 2006 | March | Geraldine Brooks |
| 2007 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy |
| 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz |
| 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
| 2010 | Tinkers | Paul Harding |
| 2011 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan |
| 2012 | no award | |
| 2013 | The Orphan Master's Son | Adam Johnson |
| 2014 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| 2015 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| 2016 | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| 2017 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| 2018 | Less | Andrew Sean Greer |
| 2019 | The Overstory | Richard Powers |
| 2020 | The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
| 2021 | The Night Watchman | Louise Erdrich |
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction are listed in the table.
| year | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| *Awarded posthumously. | ||
| 1962 | The Making of the President, 1960 | Theodore H. White |
| 1963 | The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| 1964 | Anti-intellectualism in American Life | Richard Hofstadter |
| 1965 | O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years | Howard Mumford Jones |
| 1966 | Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter | Edwin Way Teale |
| 1967 | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture | David Brion Davis |
| 1968 | Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756 and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789 | Will and Ariel Durant |
| 1969 | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History | Norman Mailer |
| So Human an Animal | Rene Jules Dubos | |
| 1970 | Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Non-violence | Erik H. Erikson |
| 1971 | The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 | John Toland |
| 1972 | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945 | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| 1973 | Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam | Frances Fitzgerald |
| Children of Crisis, vol. 2 and 3 | Robert Coles | |
| 1974 | The Denial of Death* | Ernest Becker |
| 1975 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard |
| 1976 | Why Survive?: Being Old in America | Robert N. Butler |
| 1977 | Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay | William W. Warner |
| 1978 | The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence | Carl Sagan |
| 1979 | On Human Nature | Edward O. Wilson |
| 1980 | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| 1981 | Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture | Carl E. Schorske |
| 1982 | The Soul of a New Machine | Tracy Kidder |
| 1983 | Is There No Place on Earth for Me? | Susan Sheehan |
| 1984 | The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry | Paul Starr |
| 1985 | The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two | Studs Terkel |
| 1986 | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | J. Anthony Lukas |
| Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White | Joseph Lelyveld | |
| 1987 | Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land | David K. Shipler |
| 1988 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes |
| 1989 | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Neil Sheehan |
| 1990 | And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South | Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson |
| 1991 | The Ants | Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson |
| 1992 | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power | Daniel Yergin |
| 1993 | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America | Garry Wills |
| 1994 | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | David Remnick |
| 1995 | The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | Jonathan Weiner |
| 1996 | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism | Tina Rosenberg |
| 1997 | Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris | Richard Kluger |
| 1998 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond |
| 1999 | Annals of the Former World | John McPhee |
| 2000 | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | John W. Dower |
| 2001 | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | Herbert P. Bix |
| 2002 | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution | Diane McWhorter |
| 2003 | "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide | Samantha Power |
| 2004 | Gulag: A History | Anne Applebaum |
| 2005 | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 | Steve Coll |
| 2006 | Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya | Caroline Elkins |
| 2007 | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright |
| 2008 | The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 | Saul Friedländer |
| 2009 | Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | Douglas A. Blackmon |
| 2010 | The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy | David E. Hoffman |
| 2011 | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| 2012 | The Swerve: How The World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt |
| 2013 | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Gilbert King |
| 2014 | Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation | Dan Fagin |
| 2015 | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| 2016 | Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS | Joby Warrick |
| 2017 | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond |
| 2018 | Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America | James Forman, Jr. |
| 2019 | Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America | Eliza Griswold |
| 2020 | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America | Greg Grandin |
| The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care | Anne Boyer | |
| 2021 | Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy | David Zucchino |
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for history
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for history are listed in the table.
| year | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| *Awarded posthumously. | ||
| **Potter died before completing the work; Fehrenbacher wrote the final chapters and edited it. | ||
| ***Editor. | ||
| 1917 | With Americans of Past and Present Days | J.J. Jusserand |
| 1918 | History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 | James Ford Rhodes |
| 1919 | no award | |
| 1920 | The War with Mexico, 2 vol. | Justin H. Smith |
| 1921 | The Victory at Sea | William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick |
| 1922 | The Founding of New England | James Truslow Adams |
| 1923 | The Supreme Court in United States History | Charles Warren |
| 1924 | The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation | Charles Howard McIlwain |
| 1925 | History of the American Frontier | Frederic L. Paxson |
| 1926 | A History of the United States | Edward Channing |
| 1927 | Pinckney's Treaty | Samuel Flagg Bemis |
| 1928 | Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vol. | Vernon Louis Parrington |
| 1929 | The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 | Fred Albert Shannon |
| 1930 | The War of Independence | Claude H. Van Tyne |
| 1931 | The Coming of the War, 1914, 2 vol. | Bernadotte E. Schmitt |
| 1932 | My Experiences in the World War, 2 vol. | John J. Pershing |
| 1933 | The Significance of Sections in American History* | Frederick J. Turner |
| 1934 | The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in Democracy | Herbert Agar |
| 1935 | The Colonial Period of American History | Charles McLean Andrews |
| 1936 | A Constitutional History of the United States | Andrew C. McLaughlin |
| 1937 | The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 | Van Wyck Brooks |
| 1938 | The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 | Paul Herman Buck |
| 1939 | A History of American Magazines | Frank Luther Mott |
| 1940 | Abraham Lincoln: The War Years | Carl Sandburg |
| 1941 | The Atlantic Migration,1607–1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States | Marcus Lee Hansen |
| 1942 | Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 | Margaret Leech |
| 1943 | Paul Revere and the World He Lived In | Esther Forbes |
| 1944 | The Growth of American Thought | Merle Curti |
| 1945 | Unfinished Business | Stephen Bonsal |
| 1946 | The Age of Jackson | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
| 1947 | Scientists Against Time | James Phinney Baxter III |
| 1948 | Across the Wide Missouri | Bernard De Voto |
| 1949 | The Disruption of American Democracy | Roy Franklin Nichols |
| 1950 | Art and Life in America | Oliver W. Larkin |
| 1951 | The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period, 1815–1840, 2 vol. | R. Carlyle Buley |
| 1952 | The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People | Oscar Handlin |
| 1953 | The Era of Good Feelings | George Dangerfield |
| 1954 | A Stillness at Appomattox | Bruce Catton |
| 1955 | Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History | Paul Horgan |
| 1956 | The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR | Richard Hofstadter |
| 1957 | Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 | George F. Kennan |
| 1958 | Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War | Bray Hammond |
| 1959 | The Republican Era, 1869–1901: A Study in Administrative History | Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider |
| 1960 | In the Days of McKinley | Margaret Leech |
| 1961 | Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference | Herbert Feis |
| 1962 | The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 | Lawrence H. Gipson |
| 1963 | Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878 | Constance McLaughlin Green |
| 1964 | Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town | Sumner Chilton Powell |
| 1965 | The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879 | Irwin Unger |
| 1966 | The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 3 vol.* | Perry Miller |
| 1967 | Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West | William H. Goetzmann |
| 1968 | The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution | Bernard Bailyn |
| 1969 | Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination | Leonard W. Levy |
| 1970 | Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department | Dean Acheson |
| 1971 | Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom | James MacGregor Burns |
| 1972 | Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States | Carl N. Degler |
| 1973 | People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization | Michael Kammen |
| 1974 | The Americans: The Democratic Experience | Daniel J. Boorstin |
| 1975 | Jefferson and His Time, 5 vol. | Dumas Malone |
| 1976 | Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times | Paul Horgan |
| 1977 | The Impending Crisis: 1848–1861** | David M. Potter and Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| 1978 | The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business | Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. |
| 1979 | The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics | Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| 1980 | Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery | Leon F. Litwack |
| 1981 | American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 | Lawrence A. Cremin |
| 1982 | Mary Chesnut's Civil War | C. Vann Woodward*** |
| 1983 | The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 | Rhys L. Isaac |
| 1984 | no award | |
| 1985 | Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Lundis, Alfred E. Kahn | Thomas K. McCraw |
| 1986 | The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age | Walter A. McDougall |
| 1987 | Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution | Bernard Bailyn |
| 1988 | The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 | Robert V. Bruce |
| 1989 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era | James M. McPherson |
| Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963 | Taylor Branch | |
| 1990 | In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines | Stanley Karnow |
| 1991 | A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| 1992 | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties | Mark E. Neely, Jr. |
| 1993 | The Radicalism of the American Revolution | Gordon S. Wood |
| 1994 | no award | |
| 1995 | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| 1996 | William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic | Alan Taylor |
| 1997 | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution | Jack N. Rakove |
| 1998 | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion | Edward J. Larson |
| 1999 | Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 | Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace |
| 2000 | Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 | David M. Kennedy |
| 2001 | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation | Joseph J. Ellis |
| 2002 | The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America | Louis Menand |
| 2003 | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 | Rick Atkinson |
| 2004 | A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration | Steven Hahn |
| 2005 | Washington's Crossing | David Hackett Fischer |
| 2006 | Polio: An American Story | David M. Oshinsky |
| 2007 | The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation | Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff |
| 2008 | What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 | Daniel Walker Howe |
| 2009 | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family | Annette Gordon-Reed |
| 2010 | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World | Liaquat Ahamed |
| 2011 | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery | Eric Foner |
| 2012 | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention* | Manning Marable |
| 2013 | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam | Fredrik Logevall |
| 2014 | The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 | Alan Taylor |
| 2015 | Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People | Elizabeth A. Fenn |
| 2016 | Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America | T.J. Stiles |
| 2017 | Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy | Heather Ann Thompson |
| 2018 | The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea | Jack E. Davis |
| 2019 | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | David W. Blight |
| 2020 | Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America | W. Caleb McDaniel |
| 2021 | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America | Marcia Chatelain |
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for music
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for music are listed in the table.
| year | title | composer |
|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song | William Schuman |
| 1944 | Symphony No. 4, Opus 34 | Howard Hanson |
| 1945 | Appalachian Spring (ballet) | Aaron Copland |
| 1946 | The Canticle of the Sun (cantata) | Leo Sowerby |
| 1947 | Symphony No. 3 | Charles Ives |
| 1948 | Symphony No. 3 | Walter Piston |
| 1949 | music for the film Louisiana Story | Virgil Thomson |
| 1950 | The Consul (opera) | Gian Carlo Menotti |
| 1951 | Giants in the Earth (opera) | Douglas S. Moore |
| 1952 | Symphony Concertante | Gail Kubik |
| 1953 | no award | |
| 1954 | Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra | Quincy Porter |
| 1955 | The Saint of Bleecker Street (opera) | Gian Carlo Menotti |
| 1956 | Symphony No. 3 | Ernst Toch |
| 1957 | Meditation on Ecclesiastes (for string orchestra) | Norman Dello Joio |
| 1958 | Vanessa (opera) | Samuel Barber |
| 1959 | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra | John LaMontaine |
| 1960 | Second String Quartet | Elliott Carter |
| 1961 | Symphony No. 7 | Walter Piston |
| 1962 | The Crucible (opera) | Robert Ward |
| 1963 | Piano Concerto No. 1 | Samuel Barber |
| 1964 | no award | |
| 1965 | no award | |
| 1966 | Variations for Orchestra | Leslie Bassett |
| 1967 | Quartet No. 3 | Leon Kirchner |
| 1968 | Echoes of Time and the River (for orchestra) | George Crumb |
| 1969 | String Quartet No. 3 | Karel Husa |
| 1970 | Time's Encomium (electronic work) | Charles Wuorinen |
| 1971 | Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sound | Mario Davidovsky |
| 1972 | Windows (for orchestra) | Jacob Druckman |
| 1973 | String Quartet No. 3 | Elliott Carter |
| 1974 | Notturno (for chamber ensemble) | Donald Martino |
| 1975 | From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (song cycle) | Dominick Argento |
| 1976 | Air Music (orchestral suite) | Ned Rorem |
| 1977 | Visions of Terror and Wonder (for mezzo soprano and orchestra) | Richard Wernick |
| 1978 | Deja Vu (for percussion and orchestra) | Michael Colgrass |
| 1979 | Aftertones of Infinity (for orchestra) | Joseph Schwantner |
| 1980 | In Memory of a Summer Day (for soprano and orchestra) | David Del Tredici |
| 1981 | no award | |
| 1982 | Concerto for Orchestra | Roger Sessions |
| 1983 | Symphony No. 1 (Three Movements for Orchestra) | Ellen Taaffe Zwilich |
| 1984 | Canti del sole (for solo voices and orchestra) | Bernard Rands |
| 1985 | RiverRun (symphony) | Stephen Albert |
| 1986 | Wind Quintet IV | George Perle |
| 1987 | The Flight into Egypt (for soprano, baritone, chorus, and orchestra) | John Harbison |
| 1988 | 12 New Etudes for Piano | William Bolcom |
| 1989 | Whispers out of Time (for string orchestra) | Roger Reynolds |
| 1990 | Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra | Mel Powell |
| 1991 | Symphony | Shulamit Ran |
| 1992 | The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark (for orchestra) | Wayne Peterson |
| 1993 | Trombone Concerto | Christopher Rouse |
| 1994 | Of Reminiscences and Reflections (for orchestra) | Gunther Schuller |
| 1995 | Stringmusic (for orchestra) | Morton Gould |
| 1996 | Lilacs (for voice and orchestra) | George Walker |
| 1997 | Blood on the Fields (oratorio for jazz orchestra and voices) | Wynton Marsalis |
| 1998 | String Quartet No. 2 (Musica Instrumentalis) | Aaron Jay Kernis |
| 1999 | Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion | Melinda Wagner |
| 2000 | Life Is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version | Lewis Spratlan |
| 2001 | Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra | John Corigliano |
| 2002 | Ice Field (for orchestra) | Henry Brant |
| 2003 | On the Transmigration of Souls (for orchestra, chorus, children's choir, and pre-recorded sound track) | John Adams |
| 2004 | Tempest Fantasy (chamber music) | Paul Moravec |
| 2005 | Second Concerto for Orchestra | Steven Stucky |
| 2006 | Chiavi in mano (piano concerto) | Yehudi Wyner |
| 2007 | Sound Grammar (for jazz ensemble) | Ornette Coleman |
| 2008 | The Little Match Girl Passion (for chorus and percussion) | David Lang |
| 2009 | Double Sextet | Steve Reich |
| 2010 | Violin Concerto | Jennifer Higdon |
| 2011 | Madame White Snake | Zhou Long |
| 2012 | Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts | Kevin Puts |
| 2013 | Partita for 8 Voices | Caroline Shaw |
| 2014 | Become Ocean | John Luther Adams |
| 2015 | Anthracite Fields | Julia Wolfe |
| 2016 | In for a Penny, In for a Pound | Henry Threadgill |
| 2017 | Angel's Bone | Du Yun |
| 2018 | DAMN. | Kendrick Lamar |
| 2019 | p r i s m | Ellen Reid |
| 2020 | The Central Park Five | Anthony Davis |
| 2021 | Stride | Tania León |
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry are listed in the table.
| year | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| *The 1918 and 1919 prizes were sponsored by Columbia University and the Poetry Society of America, as Joseph Pulitzer had made no provision for a poetry prize. The Pulitzer Board later formalized the prize. | ||
| **Awarded posthumously. | ||
| ***Work published and prize awarded posthumously. | ||
| 1918 | Love Songs* | Sara Teasdale |
| 1919 | Cornhuskers* | Carl Sandburg |
| The Old Road to Paradise | Margaret Widdemer | |
| 1920 | no award | |
| 1921 | no award | |
| 1922 | Collected Poems | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1923 | The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; "Eight Sonnets" in American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| 1924 | New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes | Robert Frost |
| 1925 | The Man Who Died Twice | |
| 1926 | What's O'Clock** | Amy Lowell |
| 1927 | Fiddler's Farewell | Leonora Speyer |
| 1928 | Tristram | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 1929 | John Brown's Body | Stephen Vincent Benét |
| 1930 | Selected Poems | Conrad Aiken |
| 1931 | Collected Poems of Robert Frost | Robert Frost |
| 1932 | The Flowering Stone | George Dillon |
| 1933 | Conquistador | Archibald MacLeish |
| 1934 | The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer | Robert Hillyer |
| 1935 | Bright Ambush | Audrey Wurdemann |
| 1936 | Strange Holiness | Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
| 1937 | A Further Range | Robert Frost |
| 1938 | Cold Morning Sky | Marya Zaturenska |
| 1939 | Selected Poems | John Gould Fletcher |
| 1940 | Collected Poems | Mark Van Doren |
| 1941 | | Leonard Bacon |
| 1942 | The Dust Which Is God | William Rose Benét |
| 1943 | A Witness Tree | Robert Frost |
| 1944 | Western Star** | Stephen Vincent Benét |
| 1945 | V-Letter and Other Poems | Karl Shapiro |
| 1946 | no award | |
| 1947 | Lord Weary's Castle | Robert Lowell |
| 1948 | The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue | W.H. Auden |
| 1949 | | Peter Viereck |
| 1950 | Annie Allen | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| 1951 | Complete Poems | Carl Sandburg |
| 1952 | Collected Poems | Marianne Moore |
| 1953 | Collected Poems, 1917–1952 | Archibald MacLeish |
| 1954 | The Waking: Poems, 1933–1953 | Theodore Roethke |
| 1955 | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens | Wallace Stevens |
| 1956 | Poems: North & South–A Cold Spring | Elizabeth Bishop |
| 1957 | Things of This World | Richard Wilbur |
| 1958 | Promises: Poems 1954–1956 | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1959 | Selected Poems, 1928–1958 | Stanley Kunitz |
| 1960 | Heart's Needle | W.D. Snodgrass |
| 1961 | Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades with Seventy New Poems | Phyllis McGinley |
| 1962 | Poems | Alan Dugan |
| 1963 | Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems: Collected Poems, 1950–1962 | William Carlos Williams |
| 1964 | At the End of the Open Road | Louis Simpson |
| 1965 | 77 Dream Songs | John Berryman |
| 1966 | Selected Poems, 1930–1965 | Richard Eberhart |
| 1967 | Live or Die | Anne Sexton |
| 1968 | The Hard Hours | Anthony Hecht |
| 1969 | Of Being Numerous | George Oppen |
| 1970 | Untitled Subjects | Richard Howard |
| 1971 | The Carrier of Ladders | W.S. Merwin |
| 1972 | Collected Poems | James Wright |
| 1973 | Up Country: Poems of New England, New and Selected | Maxine Kumin |
| 1974 | The Dolphin | Robert Lowell |
| 1975 | Turtle Island | Gary Snyder |
| 1976 | Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror | John Ashbery |
| 1977 | Divine Comedies | James Merrill |
| 1978 | | Howard Nemerov |
| 1979 | Now and Then: Poems, 1976–1978 | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1980 | Selected Poems | Donald Justice |
| 1981 | The Morning of the Poem | James Schuyler |
| 1982 | The Collected Poems*** | Sylvia Plath |
| 1983 | Selected Poems | Galway Kinnell |
| 1984 | American Primitive | Mary Oliver |
| 1985 | Yin: New Poems | Carolyn Kizer |
| 1986 | The Flying Change | Henry Taylor |
| 1987 | Thomas and Beulah | Rita Dove |
| 1988 | Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems | William Meredith |
| 1989 | New and Collected Poems | Richard Wilbur |
| 1990 | The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems | Charles Simic |
| 1991 | Near Changes | Mona Van Duyn |
| 1992 | Selected Poems | James Tate |
| 1993 | The Wild Iris | Louise Glück |
| 1994 | Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| 1995 | The Simple Truth | Philip Levine |
| 1996 | The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974–1994 | Jorie Graham |
| 1997 | Alive Together: New and Selected Poems | Lisel Mueller |
| 1998 | Black Zodiac | Charles Wright |
| 1999 | Blizzard of One | Mark Strand |
| 2000 | Repair | C.K. Williams |
| 2001 | Different Hours | Stephen Dunn |
| 2002 | Practical Gods | Carl Dennis |
| 2003 | Moy Sand and Gravel | Paul Muldoon |
| 2004 | Walking to Martha's Vineyard | Franz Wright |
| 2005 | Delights & Shadows | Ted Kooser |
| 2006 | Late Wife | Claudia Emerson |
| 2007 | Native Guard | Natasha Trethewey |
| 2008 | Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005 | Robert Hass |
| Failure | Philip Schultz | |
| 2009 | The Shadow of Sirius | W.S. Merwin |
| 2010 | Versed | Rae Armantrout |
| 2011 | The Best of It: New and Selected Poems | Kay Ryan |
| 2012 | Life on Mars | Tracy K. Smith |
| 2013 | Stag's Leap | Sharon Olds |
| 2014 | 3 Sections | Vijay Seshadri |
| 2015 | Digest | Gregory Pardlo |
| 2016 | Ozone Journal | Peter Balakian |
| 2017 | Olio | Tyehimba Jess |
| 2018 | Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 | Frank Bidart |
| 2019 | Be With | Forrest Gander |
| 2020 | The Tradition | Jericho Brown |
| 2021 | Postcolonial Love Poem | Natalie Diaz |
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.
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