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| Joseph Pulitzer |
Here, then, are the Prizes organized by year.
--1917--
History: With Americans of Past and Present Days (Jean Jules Jusserand)
Biography: Julia Ward Howe (Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall)
--1918--
Fiction: His Family (Ernest Poole)
Drama: Why Marry? (Jesse Lynch Williams)
History: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)
Biography: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed (William Cabell Bruce)
--1919--
Fiction: The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington)
Biography: The Education of Henry Adams (Henry Adams)
--1920--
Drama: Beyond the Horizon (Eugene O'Neill)
History: The War with Mexico (Justin H. Smith)
Biography: The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. (Albert J. Beveridge)
--1921--
Fiction: The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
Drama: Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale)
History: The Victory at Sea (William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick)
Biography: The Americanization of Edward Bok (Edward Bok)
--1922--
Fiction: Alice Adams (Booth Tarkington)
Drama: Anna Christie (Eugene O'Neill)
Poetry: Collected Poems (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
History: The Founding of New England (James Truslow Adams)
Biography: A Daughter of the Middle Border (Hamlin Garland)
--1923--
Fiction: One of Ours (Willa Cather)
Drama: Icebound (Owen Davis)
Poetry: The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
History: The Supreme Court in United States History (Charles Warren)
Biography: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Burton J. Hendrick)
--1924--
Fiction: The Able McLaughlins (Margaret Wilson)
Drama: Hell-Bent Fer Heaven (Hatcher Hughes)
Poetry: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (Robert Frost)
History: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation (Charles Howard McIlwain)
Biography: From Immigrant to Inventor (Michael I. Pupin)
--1925--
Fiction: So Big (Edna Ferber)
Drama: They Knew What They Wanted (Sidney Howard)
Poetry: The Man Who Died Twice (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
History: History of the American Frontier (Frederic L. Paxson)
Biography: Barrett Wendell and His Letters (M. A. Dewolfe Howe)
--1926--
Fiction: Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis [declined prize])
Drama: Craig's Wife (George Kelly)
Poetry: What's O'Clock (Amy Lowell)
History: A History of the United States (Edward Channing [5 of 6 Vol])
Biography: The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. (Harvey Cushing)
--1927--
Fiction: Early Autumn (Louis Bromfield)
Drama: In Abraham's Bosom (Paul Green)
Poetry: Fiddler's Farewell (Leonora Speyer)
History: Pinckney's Treaty (Samuel Flagg Bemis)
Biography: Whitman (Emory Holloway)
--1928--
Fiction: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
Drama: Strange Interlude (Eugene O'Neill)
Poetry: Tristram (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
History: Main Currents in American Thought (Vernon Louis Parrington)
Biography: The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas (Charles Edward Russell)
--1929--
Fiction: Scarlet Sister Mary (Julia Peterkin)
Drama: Street Scene (Elmer Rice)
Poetry: John Brown's Body (Stephen Vincent Benét)
History: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 (Fred Albert Shannon)
Biography: The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Burton J. Hendrick)
--1930--
Fiction: Laughing Boy (Oliver La Farge)
Drama: The Green Pastures (Marc Connelly)
Poetry: Selected Poems (Conrad Aiken)
History: The War of Independence (Claude H. Van Tyne)
Biography: The Raven (Marquis James)
--1931--
Fiction: Years of Grace (Margaret Ayer Barnes)
Drama: Alison's House (Susan Glaspell)
Poetry: Collected Poems (Robert Frost)
History: The Coming of the War, 1914 (Bernadotte E. Schmitt)
Biography: Charles W. Eliot (Henry James)
--1932--
Fiction: The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
Drama: Of Thee I Sing (George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin,)
Poetry: The Flowering Stone (George Dillon)
History: My Experiences in the World War (John J. Pershing)
Biography: Theodore Roosevelt (Henry F. Pringle)
--1933--
Fiction: The Store (Thomas Sigismund Stribling)
Drama: Both Your Houses (Maxwell Anderson)
Poetry: Conquistador (Archibald MacLeish)
History: The Significance of Sections in American History (Frederick J. Turner)
Biography: Grover Cleveland (Allan Nevins)
--1934--
Fiction: Lamb in His Bosom (Caroline Miller)
Drama: Men in White (Sidney Kingsley)
Poetry: Collected Verse (Robert Hillyer)
History: The People's Choice (Herbert Agar)
Biography: John Hay (Tyler Dennett)
--1935--
Fiction: Now in November (Josephine Winslow Johnson)
Drama: The Old Maid (Zoë Akins)
Poetry: Bright Ambush (Audrey Wurdemann)
History: The Colonial Period of American History (Charles McLean Andrews)
Biography: R. E. Lee (Douglas S. Freeman)
--1936--
Fiction: Honey in the Horn (Harold L. Davis)
Drama: Idiot's Delight (Robert E. Sherwood)
Poetry: Strange Holiness (Robert P. T. Coffin)
History: A Constitutional History of the United States (Andrew C. McLaughlin)
Biography: The Thought and Character of William James (Ralph Barton Perry)
--1937--
Fiction: Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Drama: You Can't Take it with You (Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman)
Poetry: A Further Range (Robert Frost)
History: The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 (Van Wyck Brooks)
Biography: Hamilton Fish (Allan Nevins)
--1938--
Fiction: The Late George Apley (John Phillips Marquand)
Drama: Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
Poetry: Cold Morning Sky (Marya Zaturenska)
History: The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 (Paul Herman Buck)
Biography: Pedlar's Progress (Odell Shepard)
Biography: Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. (Marquis James)
--1939--
Fiction: The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
Drama: Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Robert E. Sherwood)
Poetry: Selected Poems (John Gould Fletcher)
History: A History of American Magazines (Frank Luther Mott)
Biography: Benjamin Franklin (Carl Van Doren)
--1940--
Fiction: The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Drama: The Time of Your Life (William Saroyan)
Poetry: Collected Poems (Mark Van Doren)
History: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Carl Sandburg)
Biography: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII (Ray Stannard Baker)
--1941--
Fiction: For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
Drama: There Shall Be No Night (Robert E. Sherwood)
Poetry: Sunderland Capture (Leonard Bacon)
History: The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 (Marcus Lee Hansen)
Biography: Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758: a biography (Ola Elizabeth Winslow)
--1942--
Fiction: In This Our Life (Ellen Glasgow)
Poetry: The Dust Which Is God (William Rose Benét)
History: Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 (Margaret Leech)
Biography: Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Forrest Wilson)
--1943--
Fiction: Dragon's Teeth (Upton Sinclair)
Drama: The Skin of Our Teeth (Thornton Wilder)
Poetry: A Witness Tree (Robert Frost)
History: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (Esther Forbes)
Biography: Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Samuel Eliot Morison)
--1944--
Fiction: Journey in the Dark (Martin Flavin)
Poetry: Western Star (Stephen Vincent Benét)
History: The Growth of American Thought (Merle Curti)
Biography: The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (Carleton Mabee)
--1945--
Fiction: A Bell for Adano (John Hersey)
Drama: Harvey (Mary Coyle Chase)
Poetry: V-Letter and Other Poems (Karl Shapiro)
History: Unfinished Business (Stephen Bonsal)
Biography: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel (Russel Blaine Nye)
--1946--
Drama: State of the Union (Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay)
History: The Age of Jackson (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
Biography: Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (Linnie Marsh Wolfe)
--1947--
Fiction: All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
Poetry: Lord Weary's Castle (Robert Lowell)
History: Scientists Against Time (James Phinney Baxter III)
Biography: The Autobiography of William Allen White (William Allen White)
--1948--
Fiction: Tales of the South Pacific (James A. Michener)
Drama: A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
Poetry: The Age of Anxiety (W. H. Auden)
History: Across the Wide Missouri (Bernard DeVoto)
Biography: Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow (Margaret Clapp)
--1949--
Fiction: Guard of Honor (James Gould Cozzens)
Drama: Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Poetry: Terror and Decorum (Peter Viereck)
History: The Disruption of American Democracy (Roy Franklin Nichols)
Biography: Roosevelt and Hopkins (Robert E. Sherwood)
--1950--
Fiction: The Way West (A. B. Guthrie, Jr.)
Drama: South Pacific (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan)
Poetry: Annie Allen (Gwendolyn Brooks)
History: Art and Life in America (Oliver W. Larkin)
Biography: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (Samuel Flagg Bemis)
--1951--
Fiction: The Town (Conrad Richter)
Poetry: Complete Poems (Carl Sandburg)
History: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 (R. Carlyle Buley)
Biography: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait (Margaret Louise Coit)
--1952--
Fiction: The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk)
Drama: The Shrike (Joseph Kramm)
Poetry: Collected Poems (Marianne Moore)
History: The Uprooted (Oscar Handlin)
Biography: Charles Evans Hughes (Merlo J. Pusey)
--1953--
Fiction: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
Drama: Picnic (William Inge)
Poetry: Collected Poems 1917–1952 (Archibald MacLeish)
History: The Era of Good Feelings (George Dangerfield)
Biography: Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803 (David J. Mays)
--1954--
Drama: The Teahouse of the August Moon (John Patrick)
Poetry: The Waking (Theodore Roethke)
History: A Stillness at Appomattox (Bruce Catton)
Biography: The Spirit of St. Louis (Charles A. Lindbergh)
--1955--
Fiction: A Fable (William Faulkner)
Drama: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)
Poetry: Collected Poems (Wallace Stevens)
History: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History (Paul Horgan)
Biography: The Taft Story (William S. White)
--1956--
Fiction: Andersonville (MacKinlay Kantor)
Drama: The Diary of Anne Frank (Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich)
Poetry: Poems - North & South (Elizabeth Bishop)
History: The Age of Reform (Richard Hofstadter)
Biography: Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Talbot Faulkner Hamlin)
--1957--
Fiction: The Voice At The Back Door (Elizabeth Spencer)
Drama: Long Day's Journey into Night (Eugene O'Neill)
Poetry: Things of This World (Richard Wilbur)
History: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 (George F. Kennan)
Biography: Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
--1958--
Fiction: A Death in the Family (James Agee [posthumous win])
Drama: Look Homeward, Angel (Ketti Frings)
Poetry: Promises: Poems 1954-1956 (Robert Penn Warren)
History: Banks and Politics in America (Bray Hammond)
Biography: George Washington, Volumes I-VI
George Washington, Volume VII (Douglas Southall Freeman, John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth)
--1959--
Fiction: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Robert Lewis Taylor)
Drama: J.B. (Archibald MacLeish)
Poetry: Selected Poems 1928-1958 (Stanley Kunitz)
History: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 (Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider)
Biography: Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet (Arthur Walworth)
--1960--
Fiction: Advise and Consent (Allen Drury)
Drama: Fiorello! (Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick)
Poetry: Heart's Needle (W. D. Snodgrass)
History: In the Days of McKinley (Margaret Leech)
Biography: John Paul Jones (Samuel Eliot Morison)
--1961--
Fiction: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Drama: All the Way Home (Tad Mosel)
Poetry: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades (Phyllis McGinley)
History: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (Herbert Feis)
Biography: Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (David Donald)
--1962--
Fiction: The Edge of Sadness (Edwin O'Connor)
Drama: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows)
Poetry: Poems (Alan Dugan)
History: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 (Lawrence H. Gipson)
Nonfiction: The Making of the President, 1960 (Theodore White)
--1963--
Fiction: The Reivers (William Faulkner [posthumous win])
Poetry: Pictures from Brueghel (William Carlos Williams)
History: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 (Constance McLaughlin Green)
Biography: Henry James (Leon Edel)
Nonfiction: The Guns of August (Barbara W. Tuchman)
--1964--
Poetry: At The End Of The Open Road (Louis Simpson)
History: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (Sumner Chilton Powell)
Biography: John Keats (Walter Jackson Bate)
Nonfiction: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (Richard Hofstadter)
--1965--
Fiction: The Keepers of the House (Shirley Ann Grau)
Drama: The Subject Was Roses (Frank D. Gilroy)
Poetry: 77 Dream Songs (John Berryman)
History: The Greenback Era (Irwin Unger)
Biography: Henry Adams, 3 vols., (Ernest Samuels)
Nonfiction: O Strange New World (Howard Mumford Jones)
--1966--
Fiction: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (Katherine Anne Porter)
Poetry: Selected Poems (Richard Eberhart)
History: The Life of the Mind in America (Perry Miller)
Biography: A Thousand Days (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
Nonfiction: Wandering Through Winter (Edwin Way Teale)
--1967--
Fiction: The Fixer (Bernard Malamud)
Drama: A Delicate Balance (Edward Albee)
Poetry: Live or Die (Anne Sexton)
History: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (William H. Goetzmann)
Biography: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (Justin Kaplan)
Nonfiction: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (David Brion Davis)
--1968--
Fiction: The Confessions of Nat Turner (William Styron)
Poetry: The Hard Hours (Anthony Hecht)
History: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Bernard Bailyn)
Biography: Memoirs (George Frost Kennan)
Nonfiction: Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, (Will and Ariel Durant.)
--1969--
Fiction: House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday)
Drama: The Great White Hope (Howard Sackler)
Poetry: Of Being Numerous (George Oppen)
History: Origins of the Fifth Amendment (Leonard W. Levy)
Biography: The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends (Benjamin Lawrence Reid)
Nonfiction: So Human an Animal (Rene Jules Dubos)
Nonfiction: The Armies of the Night (Norman Mailer)
--1970--
Fiction: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (Jean Stafford)
Drama: No Place to be Somebody (Charles Gordone)
Poetry: Untitled Subjects (Richard Howard)
History: Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (Dean Acheson)
Biography: Huey Long (Thomas Harry Williams)
Nonfiction: Gandhi's Truth (Erik H. Erikson)
--1971--
Drama: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Zindel)
Poetry: The Carrier of Ladders (William S. Merwin)
History: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom (James MacGregor Burns)
Biography: Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938, (Lawrence Thompson)
Nonfiction: The Rising Sun (John Toland)
--1972--
Fiction: Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner)
Poetry: Collected Poems (James Wright)
History: Neither Black nor White (Carl N. Degler)
Biography: Eleanor and Franklin (Joseph P. Lash)
Nonfiction: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (Barbara W. Tuchman)
--1973--
Fiction: The Optimist's Daughter (Eudora Welty)
Drama: That Championship Season (Jason Miller)
Poetry: Up Country (Maxine Kumin)
History: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (Michael Kammen)
Biography: Luce and His Empire (W. A. Swanberg)
Nonfiction: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Frances FitzGerald)
Nonfiction: Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3, (Robert Coles)
--1974--
Fiction: Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Poetry: The Dolphin (Robert Lowell)
History: The Americans: The Democratic Experience (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Biography: O'Neill, Son and Artist (Louis Sheaffer)
Nonfiction: The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)
--1975--
Fiction: The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
Drama: Seascape (Edward Albee)
Poetry: Turtle Island (Gary Snyder)
History: Jefferson and His Time (Dumas Malone)
Biography: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Robert Caro)
Nonfiction: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
--1976--
Fiction: Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
Drama: A Chorus Line (Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban)
Poetry: Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery)
History: Lamy of Santa Fe (Paul Horgan)
Biography: Edith Wharton: A Biography (R. W. B. Lewis)
Nonfiction: Why Survive? Being Old In America (Robert Neil Butler)
--1977--
Fiction: A River Runs Through It (Norman MacLean)
Fiction: Roots (Alex Haley [special Pulitzer Prize])
Drama: The Shadow Box (Michael Cristofer)
Poetry: Divine Comedies (James Merrill)
History: The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 (David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
Biography: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence (John E. Mack)
Nonfiction: Beautiful Swimmers (William W. Warner)
--1978--
Fiction: Elbow Room (James Alan McPherson)
Drama: The Gin Game (Donald L. Coburn)
Poetry: Collected Poems (Howard Nemerov)
History: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.)
Biography: Samuel Johnson (Walter Jackson Bate)
Nonfiction: The Dragons of Eden (Carl Sagan)
--1979--
Fiction: The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
Drama: Buried Child (Sam Shepard)
Poetry: Now and Then (Robert Penn Warren)
History: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (Don E. Fehrenbacher)
Biography: Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews (Leonard Baker)
Nonfiction: On Human Nature (Edward O. Wilson)
[Beginning in 1980 finalists were announced along with winners in some categories. Below, all winners are marked with a "W" and finalists with an "F."]
--1980--
Fiction (W): The Executioner's Song (Norman Mailer)
Fiction (F): Birdy (William Wharton)
Fiction (F): The Ghost Writer (Philip Roth)
Drama (W): Talley's Folly (Lanford Wilson)
Poetry (W): Selected Poems (Donald Justice)
Poetry (F): Selected Poems (Richard Hugo)
Poetry (F): Goshawk, Antelope (Dave Smith)
History (W): Been in the Storm So Long (Leon F. Litwack)
History (F): The Plains Across (John B. Unruh)
History (F): The Urban Crucible (Gary B. Nash)
Biography (W): The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris)
Biography (F): Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur (Ernest Samuels)
Biography (F): The Duke of Deception (Geoffrey Wolff)
Biography (F): Being Bernard Berenson (Meryle Secrest)
Nonfiction (W): Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)
Nonfiction (F): The Madwoman in the Attic (Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar)
Nonfiction (F): The Medusa and the Snail (Lewis Thomas)
--1981--
Fiction (W): A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole [posthumous win])
Fiction (F): Godric (Frederick Buechner)
Fiction (F): So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell)
Drama (W): Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley)
Poetry (W): The Morning of the Poem (James Schuyler)
Poetry (F): The Right Madness on Skye (Richard Hugo)
Poetry (F): Selected Poems (Mark Strand)
History (W): American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 (Lawrence A. Cremin)
History (F): A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England (Lyle Koehler)
History (F): Over Here: The First World War and American Society (David M. Kennedy)
Biography (W): Peter the Great: His Life and World (Robert K. Massie)
Biography (F): Walt Whitman: A Life (Justin Kaplan)
Biography (F): Walter Lippmann and the American Century (Ronald Steel)
Nonfiction (W): Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Carl E. Schorske)
Nonfiction (F): China Men (Maxine Hong Kingston)
Nonfiction (F): Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (William Manchester)
Nonfiction (F): Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey (Marshall Frady)
--1982--
Fiction (W): Rabbit Is Rich (John Updike)
Fiction (F): A Flag for Sunrise (Robert Stone)
Fiction (F): Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
Drama (W): A Soldier's Play (Charles Fuller)
Poetry (W): The Collected Poems (Sylvia Plath)
Poetry (F): The Southern Cross (Charles Wright)
Poetry (F): Dream Flights (Dave Smith)
History (W): Mary Chesnut's Civil War (C. Vann Woodward)
History (F): Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 (Akira Iriye)
History (F): White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History (George M. Frederickson)
Biography (W): Grant: A Biography (William S. McFeely)
Biography (F): Mornings on Horseback (David McCullough)
Biography (F): Waldo Emerson (Gay Wilson Allen)
Nonfiction (W): The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
Nonfiction (F): Basin and Range (John McPhee)
Nonfiction (F): Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor (Diana Trilling)
--1983--
Fiction (W): The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
Fiction (F): Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler)
Fiction (F): Rabbis and Wives (Chaim Grade)
Drama (W): 'night, Mother (Marsha Norman)
Drama (F): True West (Sam Shepard)
Poetry (W): Selected Poems (Galway Kinnell)
Poetry (F): Monolithos, Poems, 1962 and 1982 (Jack Gilbert)
Poetry (F): Country Music, Selected Early Poems (Charles Wright)
History (W): The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 (Rhys L. Isaac)
History (F): Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South (Bertram Wyatt-Brown)
History (F): The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Robert L. Middlekauff)
Biography (W): Growing Up (Russell Baker)
Biography (F): Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (Richard Norton Smith)
Biography (F): Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 (Ted Morgan)
Nonfiction (W): Is There No Place on Earth for Me? (Susan Sheehan)
Nonfiction (F): The Fate of the Earth (Jonathan Schell)
Nonfiction (F): Terrorists and Novelists (Diane Johnson)
--1984--
Fiction (W): Ironweed (William Kennedy)
Fiction (F): Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
Fiction (F): The Feud (Thomas Berger)
Drama (W): Glengarry Glen Ross (David Mamet)
Drama (F): Fool for Love (Sam Shepard)
Drama (F): Painting Churches (Tina Howe)
Poetry (W): American Primitive (Mary Oliver)
Poetry (F): Weather-Fear: New and Selected Poems (John Engels)
Poetry (F): Collected Poems, 1930-1982 (Josephine Miles)
Biography (W): Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 (Louis R. Harlan)
Biography (F): Carlyle: A Biography (Fred Kaplan Thomas)
Biography (F): Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Just (Kenneth Manning)
Nonfiction (W): The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Paul Starr)
Nonfiction (F): Conversations With the Enemy (Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer)
Nonfiction (F): Endless Enemies (Jonathan Kwitny)
--1985--
Fiction (W): Foreign Affairs (Alison Lurie)
Fiction (F): I Wish This War Were Over (Diana O'Hehir)
Fiction (F): Leaving the Land (Douglas Unger)
Drama (W): Sunday in the Park with George (James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim)
Drama (F): The Dining Room (A. R. Gurney)
Drama (F): The Gospel at Colonus (Lee Breuer, Bob Telson)
Poetry (W): Yin (Carolyn Kizer)
Poetry (F): The Other Side of the River (Charles Wright)
Poetry (F): Ground Work (Robert Duncan)
History (W): Prophets of Regulation (Thomas K. McCraw)
History (F): The Crucible of Race (Joel Williamson)
History (F): The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Francis Paul Prucha)
Biography (W): The Life and Times of Cotton Mather (Kenneth Silverman)
Biography (F): Becoming William James (Howard M. Feinstein)
Biography (F): The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Michael Mott)
Nonfiction (W): The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two (Studs Terkel)
Nonfiction (F): Endless Enemies (Jonathan Kwitny)
Nonfiction (F): Dawn to the West (Donald Keene)
--1986--
Fiction (W): Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
Fiction (F): The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
Fiction (F): Continental Drift (Russell Banks)
Poetry (W): The Flying Change (Henry S. Taylor)
Poetry (F): Selected Poems, 1963-1983 (Charles Simic)
Poetry (F): Saints and Strangers (Andrew Hudgins)
History (W): ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (Walter A. McDougall)
History (F): Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Kerby A. Miller)
History (F): Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (Jacqueline Jones)
History (F): Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Forrest McDonald)
Biography (W): Louise Bogan: A Portrait (Elizabeth Frank)
Biography (F): A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945 (Frida Scheps Weinstein)
Biography (F): George Washington Williams: A Biography (John Hope Franklin)
Nonfiction (W): Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (J. Anthony Lukas)
Nonfiction (W): Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (Joseph Lelyveld)
Nonfiction (F): Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Robert Neelly Bellah)
--1987--
Fiction (W): A Summons to Memphis (Peter Taylor)
Fiction (F): Paradise (Donald Barthelme)
Fiction (F): Whites (Norman Rush)
Drama (W): Fences (August Wilson)
Drama (F): Broadway Bound (Neil Simon)
Drama (F): A Walk in the Woods (Lee Blessing)
Poetry (W): Thomas and Beulah (Rita Dove)
Poetry (F): Unending Blues (Charles Simic)
Poetry (F): The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth (Hayden Carruth)
History (W): Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (Bernard Bailyn)
History (F): Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (David J. Garrow)
History (F): Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945 (David Eisenhower)
Biography (W): Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (David J. Garrow)
Biography (F): Murrow: His Life and Times (A.M. Sperber)
Biography (F): Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (Joseph Frank)
Biography (F): The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams (Leonard L. Richards)
Nonfiction (W): Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (David K. Shipler)
Nonfiction (F): Rising from the Plains (John McPhee)
Nonfiction (F): Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir (Cyra McFadden)
--1988--
Fiction (W): Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Fiction (F): Persian Nights (Diane Johnson)
Fiction (F): That Night (Alice McDermott)
Drama (W): Driving Miss Daisy (Alfred Uhry)
Drama (F): Boy's Life (Howard Korder)
Drama (F): Talk Radio (Eric Bogosian)
Poetry (W): Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (William Meredith)
Poetry (F): Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems (Lucille Clifton)
Poetry (F): Flesh and Blood (C.K. Williams)
History (W): The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 (Robert V. Bruce)
History (F): The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (Charles E. Rosenberg)
History (F): The Fall of the House of Labor (David Montgomery)
Biography (W): Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (David Herbert Donald)
Biography (F): George Santayana: A Biography (John McCormick)
Biography (F): Hemingway (Kenneth S. Lynn)
Nonfiction (W): The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Richard Rhodes)
Nonfiction (F): Chaos: Making a New Science (James Gleick)
Nonfiction (F): Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (Daniel Callahan)
--1989--
Fiction (W): Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler)
Fiction (F): Where I'm Calling From (Raymond Carver)
Drama (W): The Heidi Chronicles (Wendy Wasserstein)
Drama (F): Joe Turner's Come and Gone (August Wilson)
Drama (F): M. Butterfly (David Henry Hwang)
Poetry (W): New and Collected Poems (Richard Wilbur)
Poetry (F): The River of Heaven (Garrett Hongo)
Poetry (F): The One Day (Donald Hall)
History (W): Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (James M. McPherson) (two winners)
History (W): Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 (Taylor Branch) (two winners)
History (F): A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Neil Sheehan)
History (F): Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Eric Foner)
Biography (W): Oscar Wilde (Richard Ellmann)
Biography (F): The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World (Arnold Rampersad)
Biography (F): A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Neil Sheehan)
Biography (F): Freud: A Life For Our Time (Peter Gay)
Nonfiction (W): A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Neil Sheehan)
Nonfiction (F): The Last Farmer (Howard Kohn)
Nonfiction (F): Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Timothy Ferris)
--1990--
Fiction (W): The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos)
Fiction (F): Billy Bathgate (E. L. Doctorow)
Drama (F): The Piano Lesson (August Wilson)
Drama (W): And What of the Night? (María Irene Fornés)
Drama (F): Love Letters (A. R. Gurney)
Poetry (W): The World Doesn't End (Charles Simic)
Poetry (F): Time's Power (Adrienne Rich)
Poetry (F): Selected and Last Poems (Paul Zweig)
History (W): In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines (Stanley Karnow)
History (F): American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970 (Thomas P. Hughes)
History (F): The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I (Hugh Honour)
Biography (W): Machiavelli in Hell (Sebastian de Grazia)
Biography (F): A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (Geoffrey C. Ward)
Biography (F): The Road From Coorain (Jill Ker Conway)
Biography (F): Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides (Reynolds Price)
Nonfiction (W): And Their Children After Them (Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson)
Nonfiction (F): Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Stephen Jay Gould)
Nonfiction (F): A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 (David Fromkin)
--1991--
Fiction (W): Rabbit at Rest (John Updike)
Fiction (F): Mean Spirit (Linda Hogan)
Fiction (F): The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Drama (W): Lost in Yonkers (Neil Simon)
Drama (F): Prelude to a Kiss (Craig Lucas)
Drama (F): Six Degrees of Separation (John Guare)
Poetry (W): Near Changes (Mona Van Duyn)
Poetry (F): The Transparent Man (Anthony Hecht)
Poetry (F): Leaving Another Kingdom (Gerald Stern)
History (W): A Midwife's Tale (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich)
History (F): America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (Kenneth M. Stampp)
History (F): Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Lizabeth Cohen)
History (F): The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy (Hugh David Graham)
Biography (W): Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith)
Biography (F): Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family (Joseph Frazier Wall)
Biography (F): The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends1880-1918 (Patricia O'Toole)
Nonfiction (W): The Ants (Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson)
Nonfiction (F): Looking for a Ship (John McPhee)
Nonfiction (F): River of Traps: A Village Life (William duBuys and Alex Harris)
--1992--
Fiction (W): A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
Fiction (F): Jernigan (David Gates)
Fiction (F): Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (Robert M. Pirsig)
Fiction (F): Mao II (Don DeLillo)
Drama (W): The Kentucky Cycle (Robert Schenkkan)
Drama (F): Conversations with My Father (Herb Gardner)
Drama (F): Miss Evers' Boys (David Feldshuh)
Drama (F): Two Trains Running (August Wilson)
Drama (F): Sight Unseen (Donald Margulies)
Poetry (W): Selected Poems (James Tate)
Poetry (F): Selected Poems (Robert Creeley)
Poetry (F): An Atlas of the Difficult World (Adrienne Rich)
History (W): The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (Mark E. Neely, Jr.)
History (F): A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs (Theodore Draper)
History (F): Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (William Cronon)
History (F): Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century (John Frederick Martin)
History (F): The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Richard White)
Biography (W): Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. (Lewis B. Puller)
Biography (F): Orwell: The Authorized Biography (Michael Shelden)
Biography (F): Frederick Douglass (William S. McFeely)
Nonfiction (W): The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Daniel Yergin)
Nonfiction (F): Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall)
Nonfiction (F): Broken Vessels (Andre Dubus)
--1993--
Fiction (W): A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
Fiction (F): At Weddings and Wakes (Alice McDermott)
Fiction (F): Black Water (Joyce Carol Oates)
Drama (W): Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Tony Kushner)
Drama (F): The Destiny of Me (Larry Kramer)
Drama (F): Fires in the Mirror (Anna Deavere Smith)
Poetry (W): The Wild Iris (Louise Glück)
Poetry (F): Selected Poems 1946-1985 (James Merrill)
Poetry (F): Hotel Lautreamont (John Ashbery)
History (W): The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Gordon S. Wood)
History (F): Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Garry Wills)
History (F): The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (Edward L. Ayers)
Biography (W): Truman (David McCullough)
Biography (F): Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (James Gleick)
Biography (F): Kissinger (Walter Isaacson)
Nonfiction (W): Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Garry Wills)
Nonfiction (F): Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (Richard Rodriguez)
Nonfiction (F): Where the Buffalo Roam (Anne Matthews)
Nonfiction (F): A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War (Susan Griffin)
--1994--
Fiction (W): The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)
Fiction (F): The Collected Stories (Reynolds Price)
Fiction (F): Operation Shylock: A Confession (Philip Roth)
Drama (W): Three Tall Women (Edward Albee)
Drama (F): Keely and Du (Jane Martin)
Drama (F): A Perfect Ganesh (Terrence McNally)
Poetry (W): Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Yusef Komunyakaa)
Poetry (F): The Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated (Allen Mandelbaum)
Poetry (F): Bright Existence (Brenda Hillman)
History (W): Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (Gerald Posner)
History (F): Crime and Punishment in American History (Lawrence M. Friedman)
History (F): William Faulkner and Southern History (Joel Williamson)
Biography (W): W.E.B. Du Bois : Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 (David Levering Lewis)
Biography (F): In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (Deborah Baker)
Biography (F): Genet: A Biography (Edmund White)
Nonfiction (W): Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (David Remnick)
Nonfiction (F): The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud (Peter Gay)
Nonfiction (F): The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age (John Lukacs)
--1995--
Fiction (W): The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
Fiction (F): The Collected Stories (Grace Paley)
Fiction (F): What I Lived For (Joyce Carol Oates)
Drama (W): The Young Man From Atlanta (Horton Foote)
Drama (F): The Cryptogram (David Mamet)
Drama (F): Seven Guitars (August Wilson)
Poetry (W): The Simple Truth (Philip Levine)
Poetry (F): On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 and One Train (Kenneth Koch)
Poetry (F): Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992 (Allen Ginsberg)
History (W): No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
History (F): Lincoln in American Memory (Merrill D. Peterson)
History (F): Stories of Scottsboro (James Goodman)
Biography (W): Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (Joan D. Hedrick)
Biography (F): Hugo Black: A Biography (Roger K. Newman)
Biography (F): Saint-Exupery: A Biography (Stacy Schiff)
Nonfiction (W): The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Jonathan Weiner)
Nonfiction (F): How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (Sherwin B. Nuland)
Nonfiction (F): Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story (John Berendt)
--1996--
Fiction (W): Independence Day (Richard Ford)
Fiction (F): Mr. Ives' Christmas (Oscar Hijuelos)
Fiction (F): Sabbath's Theater (Philip Roth)
Drama (W): Rent (Jonathan Larson)
Drama (F): A Fair Country (Jon Robin Baitz)
Drama (F): Old Wicked Songs (Jon Marans)
Poetry (W): The Dream of the Unified Field (Jorie Graham)
Poetry (F): New and Selected Poems (Donald Justice)
Poetry (F): Chickamauga (Charles Wright)
History (W): William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Alan Taylor)
History (F): Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Richard Rhodes)
History (F): The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (Lance Banning)
Biography (W): God: A Biography (Jack Miles)
Biography (F): John Sloan: Painter and Rebel (John Loughery)
Biography (F): Mozart: A Life (Maynard Solomon)
Nonfiction (W): The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Tina Rosenberg)
Nonfiction (F): Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (Lawrence Weschler)
Nonfiction (F): Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life (Daniel C. Dennett)
--1997--
Fiction (W): Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Steven Millhauser)
Fiction (F): The Manikin (Joanna Scott)
Fiction (F): Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Drama (F): Collected Stories (Donald Margulies)
Drama (F): The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Alfred Uhry)
Drama (F): Pride's Crossing (Tina Howe)
Poetry (W): Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (Lisel Mueller)
Poetry (F): The Willow Grove (Laurie Sheck)
Poetry (F): The Figured Wheel (Robert Pinsky)
History (W): Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Jack N. Rakove)
History (F): Founding Mothers and Fathers (Mary Beth Norton)
History (F): The Battle for Christmas (Stephen Nissenbaum)
Biography (W): Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Frank McCourt)
Biography (F): Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 (Hershel Parker)
Biography (F): In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country (Kim Barnes)
Nonfiction (W): Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (Richard Kluger)
Nonfiction (F): Fame and Folly (Cynthia Ozick)
Nonfiction (F): The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (Samuel G. Freedman)
--1998--
Fiction (W): American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
Fiction (F): Bear and His Daughter: Stories (Robert Stone)
Fiction (F): Underworld (Don DeLillo)
Drama (W): How I Learned to Drive (Paula Vogel)
Drama (F): Freedomland (Amy Freed)
Drama (F): Three Days of Rain (Richard Greenberg)
Poetry (W): Black Zodiac (Charles Wright)
Poetry (F): The Vigil (C.K. Williams)
Poetry (F): Desire (Frank Bidart)
History (W): Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (Edward J. Larson)
History (F): Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America (J. Anthony Lukas)
History (F): Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Rogers M. Smith)
Biography (W): Personal History (Katharine Graham)
Biography (F): Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life (James H. Jones)
Biography (F): Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (Sam Tanenhaus)
Nonfiction (W): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
Nonfiction (F): How the Mind Works (Steven Pinker)
Nonfiction (F): Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Jon Krakauer)
--1999--
Fiction (W): The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
Fiction (F): Cloudsplitter (Russell Banks)
Fiction (F): The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
Drama (W): Wit (Margaret Edson)
Drama (F): Running Man (Cornelius Eady and Diedre Murray)
Drama (F): Side Man (Warren Leight)
Poetry (W): Blizzard of One (Mark Strand)
Poetry (F): Mysteries of Small Houses (Alice Notley)
Poetry (F): Going Fast (Frederick Seidel)
History (W): Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace)
History (F): In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival (Paula Mitchell Marks)
History (F): The New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (William E. Burrows)
Biography (W): Lindbergh (A. Scott Berg)
Biography (F): At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life (Francine du Plessix Gray)
Biography (F): A Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasar)
Nonfiction (W): Annals of the Former World (John McPhee)
Nonfiction (F): The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (Judith Rich Harris)
Nonfiction (F): Crime and Punishment in America (Elliott Currie)
--2000--
Fiction (W): Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Fiction (F): Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Annie Proulx)
Fiction (F): Waiting (Ha Jin)
Drama (W): Dinner with Friends (Donald Margulies)
Drama (F): In the Blood (Suzan-Lori Parks)
Drama (F): King Hedley II (August Wilson)
Poetry (W): Repair (C. K. Williams)
Poetry (F): Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (Adrienne Rich)
Poetry (F): Elegy for the Southern Drawl (Rodney Jones)
History (W): Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (David M. Kennedy)
History (F): The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America (Kevin Phillips)
History (F): Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (James H. Merrell)
Biography (W): Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov (Stacy Schiff)
Biography (F): Clear Springs: A Memoir (Bobbie Ann Mason)
Biography (F): Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (Dava Sobel)
Nonfiction (W): Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (John W. Dower)
Nonfiction (F): The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Brian Greene)
Nonfiction (F): Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (Scott Weidensaul)
--2001--
Fiction (W): The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
Fiction (F): Blonde (Joyce Carol Oates)
Fiction (F): The Quick and the Dead (Joy Williams)
Drama (W): Proof (David Auburn)
Drama (F): The Play About the Baby (Edward Albee)
Drama (F): The Waverly Gallery (Kenneth Lonergan)
Poetry (W): Different Hours (Stephen Dunn)
Poetry (F): The Other Lover (Bruce Smith)
Poetry (F): Pursuit of a Wound (Sydney Lea)
History (W): Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Joseph J. Ellis)
History (F): The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Alexander Keyssar)
History (F): Way Out There in the Blue (Frances FitzGerald)
Biography (W): W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919–1963 (David Levering Lewis)
Biography (F): Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Christoph Wolff)
Biography (F): The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (H.W. Brands)
Nonfiction (W): Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Herbert P. Bix)
Nonfiction (F): A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
Nonfiction (F): Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Ted Conover)
--2002--
Fiction (W): Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
Fiction (F): The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
Fiction (F): John Henry Days (Colson Whitehead)
Drama (W): Topdog/Underdog (Suzan-Lori Parks)
Drama (F): The Glory of Living (Rebecca Gilman)
Drama (F): Yellowman (Dael Orlandersmith)
Poetry (W): Practical Gods (Carl Dennis)
Poetry (F): The Seven Ages (Louise Gluck)
Poetry (F): The Beforelife (Franz Wright)
History (W): The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (Louis Menand)
History (F): Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (J. William Harris)
History (F): Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Daniel K. Richter)
Biography (W): John Adams (David McCullough)
Biography (F): Grant (Jean Edward Smith)
Biography (F): An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (Jimmy Carter)
Nonfiction (W): Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Diane McWhorter)
Nonfiction (F): The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Andrew Solomon)
Nonfiction (F): War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (David Halberstam)
--2003--
Fiction (W): Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Fiction (F): Servants of the Map: Stories (Andrea Barrett)
Fiction (F): You Are Not a Stranger Here (Adam Haslett)
Drama (W): Anna in the Tropics (Nilo Cruz)
Drama (F): The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? (Edward Albee)
Drama (F): Take Me Out (Richard Greenberg)
Poetry (W): Moy Sand and Gravel (Paul Muldoon)
Poetry (F): Music Like Dirt (Frank Bidart)
Poetry (F): Hazmat (J.D. McClatchy)
History (W): An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 (Rick Atkinson)
History (F): At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Philip Dray)
History (F): Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America (Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz)
Biography (W): Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Robert Caro)
Biography (F): Beethoven: The Music and the Life (Lewis Lockwood)
Biography (F): The Fly Swatter (Nicholas Dawidoff)
Nonfiction (W): "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Samantha Power)
Nonfiction (F): The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit (Ellen Meloy)
Nonfiction (F): The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Steven Pinker)
--2004--
Fiction (W): The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
Fiction (F): American Woman (Susan Choi)
Fiction (F): Evidence of Things Unseen (Marianne Wiggins)
Drama (W): I Am My Own Wife (Doug Wright)
Drama (F): Man from Nebraska (Tracy Letts)
Drama (F): Omnium Gatherum (Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros)
Poetry (W): Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Franz Wright)
Poetry (F): Middle Earth (Henri Cole)
Poetry (F): Eyeshot (Heather McHugh)
History (W): A Nation Under Our Feet (Steven Hahn)
History (F): Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center (Daniel Okrent)
History (F): They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 (David Maraniss)
Biography (W): Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (William Taubman)
Biography (F): Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work (Hayden Herrera)
Biography (F): Isaac Newton (James Gleick)
Nonfiction (W): Gulag: A History (Anne Applebaum)
Nonfiction (F): The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military (Dana Priest)
Nonfiction (F): Rembrandt's Jews (Steven Nadler)
--2005--
Fiction (W): Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Fiction (F): An Unfinished Season (Ward Just)
Fiction (F): War Trash (Ha Jin)
Drama (W): Doubt: A Parable (John Patrick Shanley)
Drama (F): The Clean House (Sarah Ruhl)
Drama (F): Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Will Eno)
Poetry (W): Delights & Shadows (Ted Kooser)
Poetry (F): The Orchard (Brigit Pegeen Kelly)
Poetry (F): Search Party: Collected Poems (William Matthews)
History (W): Washington's Crossing (David Hackett Fischer)
History (F): Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Kevin Boyle)
History (F): Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 (Michael O'Brien)
Biography (W): de Kooning: An American Master (Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan)
Biography (F): Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Stephen Greenblatt)
Biography (F): Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America (William Souder)
Nonfiction (W): Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Steve Coll)
Nonfiction (F): The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Luis Alberto Urrea)
Nonfiction (F): Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta)
--2006--
Fiction (W): March (Geraldine Brooks)
Fiction (F): The Bright Forever (Lee Martin)
Fiction (F): The March (E. L. Doctorow)
Drama (F): Miss Witherspoon (Christopher Durang)
Drama (F): The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Rolin Jones)
Drama (F): Red Light Winter (Adam Rapp)
Poetry (W): Late Wife (Claudia Emerson)
Poetry (F): Elegy on Toy Piano (Dean Young)
Poetry (F): American Sublime (Elizabeth Alexander)
History (W): Polio: An American Story (David Oshinsky)
History (F): New York Burning (Jill Lepore)
History (F): The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (Sean Wilentz)
Biography (W): American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin)
Biography (F): The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
Biography (F): The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (Megan Marshall)
Nonfiction (W): Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Caroline Elkins)
Nonfiction (F): The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (George Packer)
Nonfiction (F): Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Tony Judt)
--2007--
Fiction (W): The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
Fiction (F): After This (Alice McDermott)
Fiction (F): The Echo Maker (Richard Powers)
Drama (W): Rabbit Hole (David Lindsay-Abaire)
Drama (F): Bulrusher (Eisa Davis)
Drama (F): Orpheus X (Rinde Eckert)
Drama (F): Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue (Quiara Alegría Hudes)
Poetry (W): Native Guard (Natasha Trethewey)
Poetry (F): The Republic of Poetry (Martin Espada)
Poetry (F): Interrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004 (David Wojahn)
History (W): The Race Beat (Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff)
History (F): Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Nathaniel Philbrick)
History (F): Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (James T. Campbell)
Biography (W): The Most Famous Man in America (Debby Applegate)
Biography (F): John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty (Arthur H. Cash)
Biography (F): Andrew Carnegie (David Nasaw)
Nonfiction (W): The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright)
Nonfiction (F): Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness (Pete Earley)
Nonfiction (F): Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Thomas E. Ricks)
--2008--
Fiction (W): The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
Fiction (F): Shakespeare's Kitchen (Lore Segal)
Fiction (F): Tree of Smoke (Denis Johnson)
Drama (W): August: Osage County (Tracy Letts)
Drama (F): Dying City (Christopher Shinn)
Drama (F): Yellow Face (David Henry Hwang)
Poetry (W): Time and Materials (Robert Hass)
Poetry (W): Failure (Philip Schultz)
Poetry (F): Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006 (Ellen Bryant Voigt)
History (W): What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Daniel Walker Howe)
History (F): The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (David Halberstam)
History (F): Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (Robert Dallek)
Biography (W): Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (John Matteson)
Biography (F): The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (Martin Duberman)
Biography (F): The Life of Kingsley Amis (Zachary Leader)
Nonfiction (W): The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (Saul Friedlander)
Nonfiction (F): The Cigarette Century (Allan M. Brandt)
Nonfiction (F): The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Alex Ross)
--2009--
Fiction (W): Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
Fiction (F): All Souls (Christine Schutt)
Fiction (F): The Plague of Doves (Louise Erdrich)
Drama (W): Ruined (Lynn Nottage)
Drama (F): Becky Shaw (Gina Gionfriddo)
Drama (F): In the Heights (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes)
Poetry (W): The Shadow of Sirius (W. S. Merwin)
Poetry (F): What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems (Ruth Stone)
Poetry (F): Watching the Spring Festival (Frank Bidart)
History (W): The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Annette Gordon-Reed)
History (F): The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the (G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot)
History (F): This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust)
Biography (W): American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Jon Meacham)
Biography (F): Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (H.W. Brands)
Biography (F): The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (Steve Coll)
Nonfiction (W): Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
Nonfiction (F): The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (William I. Hitchcock)
Nonfiction (F): Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age (Arthur L. Herman)
--2010--
Fiction (W): Tinkers (Paul Harding)
Fiction (F): In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Daniyal Mueenuddin)
Fiction (F): Love in Infant Monkeys (Lydia Millet)
Drama (W): Next to Normal (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey)
Drama (F): Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Rajiv Joseph)
Drama (F): The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Kristoffer Diaz)
Drama (F): In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Sarah Ruhl)
Poetry (W): Versed (Rae Armantrout)
Poetry (F): Tryst (Angie Estes)
Poetry (F): Inseminating the Elephant (Lucia Perillo)
History (W): Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Liaquat Ahamed)
History (F): Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Gordon S. Wood)
History (F): Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Greg Grandin)
Biography (W): The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (T.J. Stiles)
Biography (F): Cheever: A Life (Blake Bailey)
Biography (F): Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (John Milton Cooper, Jr.)
Nonfiction (W): The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (David E. Hoffman)
Nonfiction (F): The Evolution of God (Robert Wright)
Nonfiction (F): How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy)
--2011--
Fiction (W): A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
Fiction (F): The Privileges (Jonathan Dee)
Fiction (F): The Surrendered (Chang-Rae Lee)
Drama (W): Clybourne Park (Bruce Norris)
Drama (F): Detroit (Lisa D'Amour)
Drama (F): A Free Man of Color (John Guare)
Poetry (W): The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Kay Ryan)
Poetry (F): The Common Man (Maurice Manning)
Poetry (F): Break the Glass (Jean Valentine)
History (W): The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Eric Foner)
History (F): Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Stephanie McCurry)
History (F): Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston (Michael J. Rawson)
Biography (W): Washington: A Life (Ron Chernow)
Biography (F): The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Alan Brinkley)
Biography (F): Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon (Michael O'Brien)
Nonfiction (W): Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
Nonfiction (F): The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas G. Carr)
Nonfiction (F): Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (S.C. Gwynne)
--2012--
Fiction (F): Train Dreams (Denis Johnson)
Fiction (F): Swamplandia! (Karen Russell)
Fiction (F): The Pale King (David Foster Wallace)
Drama (W): Water by the Spoonful (Quiara Alegría Hudes)
Drama (F): Other Desert Cities (Jon Robin Baitz)
Drama (F): Sons of the Prophet (Stephen Karam)
Poetry (W): Life on Mars (Tracy K. Smith)
Poetry (F): How Long (Ron Padgett)
Poetry (F): Core Samples from the World (Forrest Gander)
History (W): Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Manning Marable)
History (F): Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (Anne F. Hyde)
History (F): The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden (Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan)
History (F): Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (Richard White)
Biography (W): George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis)
Biography (F): Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Manning Marable)
Biography (F): Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (Mary Gabriel)
Nonfiction (W): The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Stephen Greenblatt)
Nonfiction (F): One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing (Diane Ackerman)
Nonfiction (F): Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (Mara Hvistendahl)
--2013--
Fiction (W): The Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
Fiction (F): What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Nathan Englander)
Fiction (F): The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey)
Drama (W): Disgraced (Ayad Akhtar)
Drama (F): Rapture, Blister, Burn (Gina Gionfriddo)
Drama (F): 4000 Miles (Amy Herzog)
Poetry (W): Stag's Leap (Sharon Olds)
Poetry (F): The Abundance of Nothing (Bruce Weigl)
Poetry (F): Collected Poems (Jack Gilbert)
History (W): Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Fredrik Logevall)
History (F): The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Bernard Bailyn)
History (F): Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (John Fabian Witt)
Biography (W): The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Tom Reiss)
Biography (F): The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (David Nasaw)
Biography (F): Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (Michael Gorra)
Nonfiction (W): Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (Gilbert King)
Nonfiction (F): Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Katherine Boo)
Nonfiction (F): The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (David George Haskell)
--2014--
Not yet announced
--2015--
Not yet announced
--2016--
Not yet announced
--2017--
Not yet announced
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