Pulitzer Prize For Arts and Letters
Winners 1985 - Present
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Year |
Award |
Title |
Author |
2004 |
Fiction | The Known World | Edward Jones |
| Nonfiction | Gulag: A History | Anne Applebaum | |
| Poetry | Walking to Martha's Vineyard | Franz Wright | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Krushchev | William Taubman | |
| Drama | I Am My Own Wife | Doug Wright | |
| History | A Nation Under Our Feet | Steven Hahn | |
2003 |
Fiction | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Nonfiction | A Problem From Hell | Samantha Power | |
| Poetry | Moy Sand and Gravel | Paul Muldoon | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Robert Caro | |
| Drama | Anna in the Tropics | Nilo Cruz | |
| History | An Army at Dawn | Rick Atkinson | |
2002 |
Fiction | Empire Falls | Richard Russo |
| Nonfiction | Carry Me Home | Diane McWhorter | |
| Poetry | Practical Gods | Carl Dennis | |
| Biography/Autobiography | John Adams | David McCullough | |
| Drama | Topdog/Underdog | Suzan-Lori Parks | |
| History | The Metaphysical Club | Louis Menard | |
2001 |
Fiction | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon |
| Nonfiction | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | Herbert Bix | |
| Poetry | Different Hours | Stephen Dunn | |
| Biography/Autobiography | W.E.B. Dubois | David Levering Lewis | |
| Drama | Proof | David Auburn | |
| History | Founding Brothers | Joseph Ellis | |
2000 |
Fiction | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Nonfiction | Embracing Defeat | John Dower | |
| Poetry | Repair | C.K. Williams | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Vera | Stacy Schiff | |
| Drama | Dinner with Friends | Donald Marguiles | |
| History | Freedom From Fear | David Kennedy | |
1999 |
Fiction | The Hours | Michael Cunningham |
| Nonfiction | Annals of the Former World | John McPhee | |
| Poetry | Blizzard of One | Mark Strand | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Lindbergh | A. Scott Berg | |
| Drama | Wit | Margaret Edson | |
| History | Gotham | Edwin Burrows, Mike Wallace | |
1998 |
Fiction | American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| Nonfiction | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | |
| Poetry | Black Zodiac | Charles Wright | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Personal history | Katherine Graham | |
| Drama | How I Learned to Drive | Paula Vogel | |
| History | Summer for the Gods | Edward Larson | |
1997 |
Fiction | Martin Dressler | Steven Millhauser |
| Nonfiction | Ashes to Ashes | Richard Kluger | |
| Poetry | Alive Together | Lisel Mueller | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | |
| History | Original Meanings | Jack Rakove | |
1996 |
Fiction | Independence Day | Richard Ford |
| Nonfiction | The Haunted Land | Tina Rosenberg | |
| Poetry | The Dream of the Unified Field | Jorie Graham | |
| Biography/Autobiography | God: A Biography | Jack Miles | |
| Drama | Rent | Jonathan Larson | |
| History | William Cooper's Town | Alan Taylor | |
1995 |
Fiction | Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
| Nonfiction | The Beak of the Finch | Jonathan Weiner | |
| Poetry | The Simple Truth | Philip Levine | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Joan Hedrick | |
| Drama | The Young Man From Atlanta | Horton Foote | |
| History | No Ordinary Time | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
1994 |
Fiction | The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx |
| Nonfiction | Lenin's Tomb | David Remnick | |
| Poetry | Neon Venacular | Yusef Komunyakaa | |
| Biography/Autobiography | W.E.B. Dubois | David Levering Lewis | |
| Drama | Three Tall Women | Edward Albee | |
1993 |
Fiction | A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain | Robert Olen Butler |
| Nonfiction | Lincoln at Gettysburg | Garry Wills | |
| Poetry | The Wild Iris | Louise Gluck | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Truman | David McCullough | |
| Drama | Angels in America | Tony Kushner | |
| History | The Radicalism of the American Revolution | Gordon Wood | |
1992 |
Fiction | Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| Nonfiction | The Prize | Daniel Yergin | |
| Poetry | Selected Poems | James Tate | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Fortunate Son | Lewis Puller | |
| Drama | The Kentucky Cycle | Robert Schenkkan | |
| History | The Fate of Liberty | Mark Neely, Jr. | |
1991 |
Fiction | Rabbit at Rest | John Updike |
| Nonfiction | The Ants | Bert Holldobler, Edward Wilson | |
| Poetry | Near Changes | Mona Van Duyn | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Jackson Pollock | Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith | |
| Drama | Lost in Yonkers | Neil Simon | |
| History | A Midwife's Tale | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | |
1990 |
Fiction | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Oscar Hijuelos |
| Nonfiction | And Their Children After Them | Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson | |
| Poetry | The World Doesn't End | Charles Simic | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Machiavelli in Hell | Sebastian de Grazia | |
| Drama | The Piano Lesson | August Wilson | |
| History | In Our Image | Stanley Karnow | |
1989 |
Fiction | Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler |
| Nonfiction | A Bright Shining Lie | Neil Sheehan | |
| Poetry | New and Collected Poems | Richard Wilbur | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Oscar Wilde | Richard Ellmann | |
| Drama | The Heidi Chronicles | Wendy Wasserstein | |
| History | Parting the Waters | Taylor Branch | |
| History | Battle Cry of Freedom | James McPherson | |
1988 |
Fiction | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Nonfiction | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes | |
| Poetry | Partial Accounts | William Meredith | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe | David Herbert Donald | |
| Drama | Driving Miss Daisy | Alfred Uhry | |
| History | The Launching of Modern American Science | Robert Bruce | |
1987 |
Fiction | A Summons to Memphis | Peter Taylor |
| Nonfiction | Arab and Jew | David Shipler | |
| Poetry | Thomas and Beulah | Rita Dove | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Bearing the Cross | David Garrow | |
| Drama | Fences | August Wilson | |
| History | Voyagers to the West | Bernard Bailyn | |
1986 |
Fiction | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurty |
| Nonfiction | Common Ground | j. Anthony Lukas | |
| Nonfiction | Move Your Shadow | Joseph Lelyveld | |
| Poetry | The Flying Change | Henry Taylor | |
| Biography/Autobiography | Louise Bogan | Elizabeth Frank | |
| History | .the Heavens and the Earth | Walter McDougall | |
1985 |
Fiction | Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie |
| Nonfiction | The Good War | Studs Terkel | |
| Poetry | yin | Carolyn Kizer | |
| Biography/Autobiography | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather | Kenneth Silverman | |
| Drama | Sunday in the Park with George | Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine | |
| History | Prophets of Regulation | Thomas McCraw |
