Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Pulitzer Prize honors achievement in American literature, journalism, or music since 1917. We feature Pulitzer winning authors whose novel, poetry, drama, or biography is featured in American Literature's collection. (Multiple award winners are noted in parentheses.)
Pulitzer Novels/Fiction
The Magnificent Ambersons (1919) and Alice Adams (1922) by Booth Tarkington
The Age of Innocence (1921) by Edith Wharton
One of Ours (1923) by Willa Cather
So Big (1925) by Edna Ferber. Though not yet in the public domain, we feature many of her eclectic short stories, including One of the Old Girls
Arrowsmith (1926) by Sinclair Lewis (he refused the Prize). We recommend Main Street and Babbitt
The Good Earth (1932) by Pearl Buck
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) by John Steinbeck
Dragon's Teeth (1943) by Upton Sinclair. We recommend The Jungle
The Old Man and the Sea (1953) by Ernest Hemingway. We recommend his short story, My Old Man
A Fable (1955) and The Reivers (1963) by William Faulkner. We recommend A Rose for Emily
To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) by Harper Lee
The Complete Stories (1966) by Katherine Anne Porter
Pulitzer Poetry
Love Songs (1918), the title poem in the collection by Sara Teasdale
Cornhuskers (1919) and Complete Poems (1951) by Carl Sandburg. Favorites include: Prairie and Laughing Corn
The Old Road to Paradise (1919), the title poem in the collection by Margaret Widdemer
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1923), the title poem in the collection by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Also honored: Eight Sonnets and A Few Figs from Thistles
New Hampshire (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943) by Robert Frost. Favorites include: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken and Home Burial
The Age of Anxiety (1948) by W.H. Auden. We recommend The More Loving One
Pulitzer Drama
Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957) by Eugene O'Neill
Miss Lulu Bett (1921) by Zona Gale
Alison's House (1931) by Susan Glaspell. We recommend Trifles
Pulitzer Biography
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) (1917) by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years won the History Prize in 1940, by Carl Sandburg
For a complete list of winners, visit The Pulitzer Prizes by Year (1917 - 2018)
You may also enjoy our American Biographies and Favorite Short Stories Collection
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