Pulitzer Prize (Books and Drama)
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University. This guide will only provide information for the book and drama winners.
Winners are announced each May.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners by Year
Chasing Me to My Grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South by Call Number: ebook and ND237.R35 A2 20212022 winner
King: a Life by 2024 winner (tie)
Master Slave Husband Wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom by Call Number: ebook2024 winner (tie)
The First Tycoon: the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by Call Number: CT 275 .V23 S85 20092010 winner
Washington: a life by 2011 winner
George F. Kennan : an American life by 2012 winner
The Black Count: glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo by 2013 winner
Margaret Fuller: a New American Life by 2014 winner
The Pope and Mussolini: the secret history of Pius XI and the rise of Fascism in Europe by 2015 winner
Barbarian Days: a surfing life by 2016 winner
The Return: fathers, sons, and the land in between by 2017 winner
Prairie Fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Call Number: PS3545.I342 Z6455 20172018 winner
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by 2000 winner
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by Call Number: E185.97.D73 L48 19932001 winner
John Adams by 2002 winner
American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Call Number: QC16.O62 B57 20052006 winner
The Most Famous Man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Call Number: BX7260.B3 A67 20062007 winner
Eden's Outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father by 2008 winner
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winners by Year
Machiavelli in Hell by 1990 winner
God: a Biography by 1996 winner
Lindbergh by 1999 winner
Growing Up by 1983 winner
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by 1984 winner
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by 1985 winner- Louise Bogan by1986 winner
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by Call Number: E185.97.K5 G36 19861987 winner
- Huey Long by1970 winner
- Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by1971 winner
Eleanor and Franklin by 1972 winner- Luce and His Empire by1973 winner
- O'Neill, Son and Artist by1974 winner
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Call Number: NA9085.M68 C37 19741975 winner
Edith Wharton: a biography by 1976 winner
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by 1977 winner- Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by1979 winner
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by1961 winner
- Henry James: a life by1963 winner
- Henry Adams by1965 winner
- Memoirs by1968 winner
- The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by1969 winner
- John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy byCall Number: E377 .B45 19491950 winner
- John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by1951 winner
- Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 : a biography by1953 winner
- The Taft Story by1955 winner
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe by1956 winner
- George Washington : a biography by1958 winner
- Woodrow Wilson by1959 winner
- Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography by1941 winner
- Crusader in Crinoline by1942 winner
- The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by1944 winner
- George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by1945 winner
- The Autobiography of William Allen White by1947 winner
- Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by1948 winner
- The Raven : a biography of Sam Houston by1930 winner
- Charles W. Eliot by1931 winner
- John Hay by1934 winner
- R. E. Lee by1935 winner
- The Thought and Character of William James: As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes, Together with His Published Writings by1936 winner
- Hamilton Fish : the inner history of the Grant administration byCall Number: E664.F52 N41937 winner
- Pedlar's progress : the life of Bronson Alcott by1938 winner (tie)
- The Life of Andrew Jackson by1938 winner (tie)
The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Call Number: ebook1921 winner- Barrett Wendell and his letters by1925 winner
- The Life of Sir William Osler, by1926 winner
- Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative by1927 winner
- The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas, by1928 winner
- The training of an American; the earlier life and letters of Walter H. Page, 1855-1913 by1929 winner
- Benjamin Franklin, self-revealed; a biographical and critical study based mainly on his own writings byCall Number: ebook1918 winner
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winners by Year
- Hot Wing King by2021 winner
- Primary Trust by2024 winner
Proof by 2001 winner
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winners by Year
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds byCall Number: PS3576.I518 E3 1971b1971 winner
- That Championship Season by1973 winner
- Seascape by1975 winner
- A Chorus Line by1976 winner
The Gin Game by 1978 winner
- Fiorello! by1960 winner
- All The Way Home by1961 winner
- How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying by1962 winner
- The Subject Was Roses by1965 winner
A Delicate Balance by 1967 winner
- South Pacific by1950 winner
- The Shrike by1952 winner
- The Teahouse of the August Moon by1954 winner
- Diary of Anne Frank by1956 winner
Long Day's Journey into Night by 1957 winner
- There Shall Be No Night by1941 winner
- State of the Union by1946 winner
- A Streetcar Named Desire by1948 winner
- Alison's House by1931 winner
- Of Thee I Sing by1932 winner
- Both Your Houses by1933 winner
- Men in White by1934 winner
- The Old Maid by1935 winner
- Idiots Delight by1936 winner
- You Can't Take It With You by1937 winner
- Craig's Wife by1926 winner
- In Abraham's Bosom by1927 winner
- Street Scene by1929 winner
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners by Year
The Netanyahus : an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family by Call Number: ebook2022 winner
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners by Year
The Executioner's Song by 1980 winner
Elbow Room by 1978 winner
Advise and Consent by 1960 winner
The Edge of Sadness by 1962 winner
The Keepers of the House by 1965 winner
The Way West by 1950 winner
The Town by 1951 winner
The Travels of Jaimie Mcpheeters by 1959 winner
Guard of Honor by 1949 winner
Pulitzer Prize for Novel Winners by Year
- Journey in the Dark by1944 winner
- Laughing Boy by1930 winner
- Years of Grace by1931 winner
- The Store by1933 winner
- Lamb in His Bosom by1934 winner
- Now in November by1935 winner
- Honey in the Horn by1936 winner
- One of ours by1923 winner
- The Able McLaughlins by1924 winner
- So Big by1925 winner
- Early Autumn by1927 winner
- Scarlet Sister Mary by1929 winner
- His family by1918 winner
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction by Year
The End of the Myth : from the frontier to the border wall in the mind of America by Call Number: E179.5 .G76 20192020 winner (tie)
The Undying : Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Call Number: RC280.B8 B645 20192020 winner (tie)
Wilmington's Lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy by Call Number: F264.W7 Z83 20202021 winner
Invisible child : poverty, survival & hope in an American city by Call Number: ebook and HV4506.N6 E45 20212022 winner
His Name Is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice by Call Number: ebook2023 winner
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama : anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy by Call Number: DS119.76 .T488 20232024 winner
The Dead Hand : the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy by Call Number: U264 .H645 20102010 winner
Devil in the Grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America by Call Number: HV9956.G76 K56 20122013 winner
Toms River : a story of science and salvation by 2014 winner
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city by Call Number: ebook and HD7287.96.U6 D47 20162017 winner
Locking up Our Own : crime and punishment in black America by Call Number: HV9950 .F655 20172018 winner
Amity and Prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America by Call Number: TD195.G3 G747 20182019 winner
Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution by Call Number: F334 .B69 N449 20012002 winner
"A Problem from Hell" : America and the age of genocide by Call Number: HV6322.7 .P69 20032003 winner
Ghost Wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 by Call Number: DS371.2 .C63 20042005 winner
Imperial Reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Call Number: DT433.577 .E45 20052006 winner
The Years of Extermination : Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Call Number: DS134.26 .F75 20082008 winner
Slavery by Another Name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II by Call Number: E185.2 .B545 20082009 winner
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction by Year
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 by Call Number: F326.A173 M34 19891990 winner
Lenin's Tomb : the last days of the soviet empire by 1994 winner
The Beak of the Finch : a story of evolution in our time by Call Number: QL696.P246 W45 19941995 winner
The Haunted Land : Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by 1996 winner
Ashes to Ashes : America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris by Call Number: HV5760 .K58 19961997 winner
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna : Politics and Culture by 1981 winner
"The Good War" : an oral history of World War Two by Call Number: D811.A2 T45 1984ISBN: 97815658434311985 winner
Common Ground : a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families by Call Number: F73.9.A1 L85 19851986 winner (tie)- Move Your Shadow : South Africa, Black and White by1986 winner (tie)
A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Call Number: DS558 .S47 19881989 winner
Gandhi's Truth : on the origins of militant nonviolence by 1970 winner
The Rising Sun : the decline and fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by Call Number: D767.2 .T581971 winner
Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by 1973 winner (tie)
Fire in the Lake : the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by 1973 winner (tie)
The Denial of Death by 1974 winner
Why Survive? by 1976 winner
Beautiful Swimmers by 1977 winner
Dragons of Eden : speculations on the evolution of human intelligence by Call Number: BF431 .S21978 winner
The Making of the President 1960 by 1962 winner- O Strange New World by1965 winner
- Wandering Through Winter by1966 winner
The Story of Civilization : Rousseau and Revolution by 1968 winner
The Armies of the Night : history as a novel, the novel as history by Call Number: PS3525.A4152 A81969 winner (tie)
Pulitzer Prize for History Winners by Year
Sweet Taste of Liberty : a true story of slavery and restitution in America by Call Number: E444.W815 M35 20192020 winner
Franchise : The Golden Arches in Black America by 2021 winner
Covered with Night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America by 2022 winner
Cuba : An American History by 2022 winner
Freedom's Dominion : A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by 2023 winner
No Right to an Honest Living : the struggles of Boston's Black workers in the Civil War era by 2024 winner
Embers of War : the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam by Call Number: DS553.1 .L64 20122013 winner
The Internal Enemy : slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Call Number: E445.V8 T38 20132014 winner
Encounters at the Heart of the World : a history of the Mandan people by 2015 winner
Custer's Trials : a life on the frontier of a new America by 2016 winner
Blood in the Water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy by Call Number: HV9475.N716 T46 20162017 winner
Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom by 2019 winner
Freedom from Fear : the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 Alternate title by Call Number: E801 .K47 19992000 winner
The Metaphysical Club by 2002 winner
A Nation under Our Feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration by 2004 winner
The Race Beat : the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation by Call Number: PN4888.R3 R63 20072007 winner
What Hath God Wrought : The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Call Number: E338 .H69 2007 and ebook2008 winner
The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family by 2009 winner
Pulitzer Prize for History Winners by Year
A Midwife's Tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 by Call Number: F29.H15 U47 19911991 winner
The Fate of Liberty : Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Call Number: E457.2 .N46 1991 and ebook1992 winner
No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II by Call Number: E807 .G66 19941995 winner
William Cooper's Town : power and persuasion on the frontier of the early American republic by 1996 winner
Original Meanings : politics and ideas in the making of the Constitution by Call Number: KF 4541 .R35 19971997 winner
Summer for the Gods : the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion by Call Number: KF224.S3 L37 2006 and ebook1998 winner
Gotham : a history of New York City to 1898 by 1999 winner
Been in the Storm So Long : the aftermath of slavery by 1980 winner- American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by1981 winner
Mary Chesnut's Civil War by 1982 winner
Prophets of Regulation by 1985 winner
The Heavens and the Earth : a political history of the space age by Call Number: TL789.8.U5 M34 19851986 winner
Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution by 1987 winner
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by 1988 winner
Parting the Waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 by (tie) 1989 winner
- Neither Black nor white : slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States by1972 winner
- People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by1973 winner
- Lamy of Santa Fe by1976 winner
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by1978 winner
The Dred Scott Case : its significance in American law and politics by Call Number: KF4545.S5 F43 20011979 winner
- The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by1962 winner
- The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879 by1965 winner
- The life of the mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War byCall Number: E169.1 .M62731966 winner
- Exploration and empire : the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West byCall Number: F591 .G621967 winner
- Origins of the Fifth Amendment by1969 winner
- The Old Northwest : pioneer period, 1815-1840 by1951 winner
- A Stillness at Appomattox by1954 winner
- Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations by1957 winner
Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Call Number: HG2472 .H31958 winner- The Republican Era: l869-1901 by1959 winner
- The Atlantic migration, 1607-1860 : a history of the continuing settlement of the United States byCall Number: JV6451 .H31941 winner
- Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by1943 winner
- The Growth of American Thought by1944 winner
- Unfinished Business by1945 winner
- The Age of Jackson by1946 winner
- Across the Wide Missouri by1948 winner
- The Founding of the American Republic, Volume II: The War of Independence: American Phase by1930 winner
- The Coming of the War 1914 by1931 winner
- The Significance of Sections in American History by1933 winner
- The People's Choice by1934 winner
- A Constitutional History of the United States by1936 winner
- The Flowering of New England by1937 winner
- The Road to Reunion by1938 winner
- A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865 by1926 winner
- Pinckney's Treaty by1927 winner
- Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by1928 winner
Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography winners by Year
Stay True : a memoir by 2023 winner
Pulizer Prize for Poetry Winners by Year
Repair by 2000 winner
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winners by Year
The World Doesn't End by 1990 winner
Near Changes by 1991 winner
The Wild Iris by 1993 winner
The Simple Truth by 1995 winner
Dream of the Unified Field : selected poems, 1974-1994 by 1996 winner
Alive Together : new and selected poems by 1997 winner
Black Zodiac by 1998 winner
- Selected Poems by1980 winner
The Morning of the Poem by 1981 winner
The Collected Poems by 1982 winner
American Primitive by 1984 winner
Yin by 1985 winner
The Flying Change by 1986 winner- Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by1988 winner
- Untitled Subjects by1970 winner
- The Carrier of Ladders by1971 winner
- Up Country by1973 winner
- The Dolphin by1974 winner
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by1976 winner
- Divine Comedies by1977 winner
- Collected Poems by1978 winner
- Now and Then by1979 winner
- Heart's Needle by1960 winner
- Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by1961 winner
- Poems by1962 winner
- Pictures from Brueghel by1963 winner
- At The End Of The Open Road by1964 winner
- 77 Dream Songs by1965 winner
- Selected Poems by1966 winner
- Live or Die by1967 winner
- The Hard Hours by1968 winner
- Of Being Numerous by1969 winner
- Annie Allen by1950 winner
- Collected Poems by1952 winner
- Collected Poems 1917-1952 by1953 winner
- The Waking by1954 winner
- Collected poems by1955 winner
- Things of This World by1957 winner
- Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by1958 winner
- Selected Poems 1928-1958 by1959 winner
- Collected poems by1940 winner
- Sunderland Capture by1941 winner
- The Dust Which Is God by1942 winner
- Western Star by1944 winner
- V-Letter and Other Poems by1945 winner
- Lord Weary's Castle by1947 winner
- Terror and Decorum by1949 winner
- Selected Poems by1930 winner
- Collected poems by1931 winner
- The Flowering Stone by1932 winner
- Conquistador by1933 winner
- Collected Verse by1934 winner
- Bright Ambush by1935 winner
- Strange Holiness by1936 winner
- A Further Range by1937 winner
- Cold Morning Sky by1938 winner
- Selected Poems by1939 winner
- The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany byCall Number: ebook1923 winner
- New Hampshire : a poem with notes and grace notes byCall Number: PS3511.R94 N4 1923 and ebook1924 winner
- The Man Who Died Twice by1925 winner
- What's O'Clock by1926 winner
- Fiddler's Farewell by1927 winner
- Tristram by1928 winner
- Corn Huskers by(tie) 1919 winner