Current and historical winners of the Pulitzer Prize, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

Pulitzer Prize Award Winners

Pulitzer Prize

Joseph Pulitzer, a renowned journalist, established this award in 1917. Since 1984 Pulitzer winners have received their prizes from the president of Columbia University at a luncheon in May in the rotunda of the Low Library in the presence of family members, professional associates, board members, and the faculty of the School of Journalism. If you'd like to learn more, you can read our history and overview of the Pulitzer Prize.

Current and Previous Award Winners:

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2024

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
King by Jonathan Eig

Pulitzer Prize for Memoir/Autobiography:
Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza

Pulitzer Prize for History:
No Right to an Honest Living by Jacqueline Jones

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Tripas by Brandon Som
2023

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Trust by Hernan Diaz

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
G-Man by Beverly Gage

Pulitzer Prize for Memoir/Autobiography:
Stay True by Hua Hsu

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Then the War by Carl Phillips
2022

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Cuba by Ada Ferrer

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
frank by Diane Seuss
2021

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Franchise by Marcia Chatelain

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
2020

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The Undying by Anne Boyer

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Sontag by Benjamin Moser

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Sweet Taste of Liberty by W.Caleb McDaniel

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
2019

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Overstory by Richard Powers

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Be With by Forrest Gander
2018

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser

Pulitzer Prize for History:
The Gulf by Jack E. Davis

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Half-light by Frank Bidart
2017

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
The Return by Hisham Matar

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
2016

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Black Flags by Joby Warrick

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Custer's Trials by T.J. Stiles

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
2015

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
The Pope and Mussolini by David Kertzer

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Digest by Gregory Pardlo
2014

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Toms River by Dan Fagin

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Margaret Fuller by Megan Marshall

Pulitzer Prize for History:
The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri
2013

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
The Black Count by Tom Reiss

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
2012

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Malcolm X by Manning Marable

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
2011

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Washington by Ron Chernow

Pulitzer Prize for History:
The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
The Best of It by Kay Ryan
2010

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Tinkers by Paul Harding

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Versed by Rae Armantrout
2009

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
American Lion by Jon Meacham

Pulitzer Prize for History:
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson

Pulitzer Prize for History:
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
2007

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate

Pulitzer Prize for History:
The Race Beat by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
2006

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
March by Geraldine Brooks

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Polio by David M. Oshinsky
2005

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
De Kooning by Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan

Pulitzer Prize for History:
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2004

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Known World by Edward Jones

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Gulag by Anne Applebaum

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Khrushchev by William Taubman

Pulitzer Prize for History:
A Nation under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
2003

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Master of the Senate by Robert Caro

Pulitzer Prize for History:
An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson
2002

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter

Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
John Adams by David McCullough

Pulitzer Prize for History:
The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand