Editing Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (section)

===1910s to 1970s===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!colspan=2 scope="col"|Winner
!colspan=2 scope="col"|Work
!Genre(s)
!Author's origin
|-
|'''[[1917 in literature|1918]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Ernest Poole.jpg|75px]]
|[[Ernest Poole]] <br> (1880–1950)
|'''''[[His Family]]'''''
|[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] (1917)
|[[Novel]]
|[[Illinois]]
|-
|'''[[1918 in literature|1919]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Booth Tarkington cph.3b27122.jpg|75px]]
|[[Booth Tarkington]] <br> (1869–1949)
|'''''[[The Magnificent Ambersons]]'''''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Page & Co.]] (1918)
|Novel
|[[Indiana]]
|-
|'''[[1919 in literature|1920]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|group=notes|First-time fiction juror Stuart P. Sherman initially recommended [[Joseph Hergesheimer]]'s ''[[Java Head (novel)|Java Head]]'' for the award; he rescinded his recommendation when the other jurors informed him that the word "whole" in a key phrase of the original description of the award, "the whole atmosphere of American life", had subsequently been changed to "whole''some''".<ref name="hohenberg">{{cite book |last1=Hohenberg |first1=John |title=The Pulitzer Prizes: A History of the Awards in Books, Drama, Music, and Journalism, Based on the Private Files Over Six Decades |url=https://archive.org/details/pulitzerprizeshi00hohe |url-access=registration |date=1974 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=0231038879 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/pulitzerprizeshi00hohe/page/55 55], 143–44, 198, 204, 258}}</ref>}}
|-
|'''[[1920 in literature|1921]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Edith wharton face.jpg|75px]]
|[[Edith Wharton]] <br> (1862–1937)
|'''''[[The Age of Innocence]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|Juror [[Robert Morss Lovett]] wrote in the June 22, 1921 issue of ''[[The New Republic]]'' that in fact the jury had preferred ''[[Main Street (novel)|Main Street]]'', by Sinclair Lewis. The Pulitzer board overturned their decision. The man with the deciding vote may have been [[Nicholas Murray Butler]]. Lovett thought the public had a right to know that the jury had chosen another book. Lewis was angry but wrote her a congratulatory note. Wharton wrote back, "When I discovered that I was being rewarded — by one of our leading Universities — for uplifting American morals, I confess I did despair. Subsequently, when I found the prize shd really have been yours, but was withdrawn because your book (I quote from memory) had 'offended a number of prominent persons in the Middle West,' disgust was added to despair."}}<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Mike Pride (writer)|Mike Pride]] |title=Edith Wharton's 'The Age of Innocence' Celebrates its 100th Anniversary |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/article/edith-whartons-age-innocence-celebrates-its-100th-anniversary |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |publisher=Pulitzer.org |access-date=January 20, 2025}}</ref>
|[[D. Appleton & Company]] (1920)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|-
|'''[[1921 in literature|1922]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Booth Tarkington cph.3b27122.jpg|75px]]
|[[Booth Tarkington]] <br> (1869–1949)
|'''''[[Alice Adams (novel)|Alice Adams]]'''''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Page & Co.]] (1921)
|Novel
|[[Indiana]]
|-
|'''[[1922 in literature|1923]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Willa Cather - The Borzoi.jpg|75px]]
|[[Willa Cather]] <br> (1873–1947)
|'''''[[One of Ours]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1922)
|Novel
|[[Virginia]]
|-
|'''[[1923 in literature|1924]]'''
!scope="row"| [[File:Margaret Wilson (The Indianapolis Star) 1923.jpg|75px]]
|[[Margaret Wilson (novelist)|Margaret Wilson]] <br> (1882–1973)
|'''''[[The Able McLaughlins]]'''''
|[[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Brothers]] (1923)
|[[Debut novel]]
|[[Iowa]]
|-
|'''[[1924 in literature|1925]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Edna-Ferber-1928.jpg|75px]]
|[[Edna Ferber]] <br> (1885–1968)
|'''''[[So Big (novel)|So Big]]'''''
|[[Grosset & Dunlap]] (1924)
|Novel
|[[Michigan]]
|-
|'''[[1925 in literature|1926]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Lewis-Sinclair-LOC.jpg|75px]]
|[[Sinclair Lewis]] <br> (1885–1951)
|'''''[[Arrowsmith (novel)|Arrowsmith]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|Lewis declined the prize.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/11/books/publishing-pulitzer-controversies.html |title=Publishing: Pulitzer Controversies |last=McDowell |first=Edwin |date=1984-05-11 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-02-15 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>}}
|[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt Brace & Co.]] (1925)
|Novel
|[[Minnesota]]
|-
|'''[[1926 in literature|1927]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Louis-Bromfield-1933.jpg|75px]]
|[[Louis Bromfield]] <br> (1896–1956)
|'''''[[Early Autumn]]'''''
|Amereon Ltd (1926)
|Novel
|[[Ohio]]
|-
|'''[[1927 in literature|1928]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Thornton Wilder - 1948.jpg|75px]]
|[[Thornton Wilder]] <br> (1897–1975)
|'''''[[The Bridge of San Luis Rey]]'''''
|[[Boni & Liveright|Albert & Charles Boni]] (1927)
|Novel
|[[Wisconsin]]
|-
|'''[[1928 in literature|1929]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Julia Peterkin.jpg|75px]]
|[[Julia Peterkin]] <br> (1880–1961)
|'''''[[Scarlet Sister Mary]]'''''
|[[Bobbs-Merrill Company]] (1928)
|Novel
|[[South Carolina]]
|-
|'''[[1929 in literature|1930]]'''
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|[[Oliver La Farge]] <br> (1901–1963)
|'''''[[Laughing Boy (novel)|Laughing Boy]]'''''
|[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin]] (1929)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|-
|'''[[1930 in literature|1931]]'''
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|[[Margaret Ayer Barnes]] <br> (1886–1967)
|'''''[[Years of Grace]]'''''
|[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin]] (1930)
|Novel
|[[Illinois]]
|-
|'''[[1931 in literature|1932]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Pearl Buck (Nobel).jpg|75px]]
|[[Pearl S. Buck]] <br> (1892–1973)
|'''''[[The Good Earth]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|Advisory Board secretary [[Frank D. Fackenthal]] asked the jurors only to "list the books in the order of the jury's choice without indicating the ins and outs of the vote." Their report said that they had also "favorably considered" ''[[Shadows on the Rock]]'' by [[Willa Cather]] and ''The Lady Who Came to Stay'' by R.E. Spencer, noting "it's a rare year when three such excellent novels appear."<ref name="quo" />}}
|[[John Day Company]] (1931)
|[[Historical fiction]]
|[[West Virginia]]
|-
|'''[[1932 in literature|1933]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:T. S. Stribling.jpg|75px]]
|[[T. S. Stribling]] <br> (1881–1965)
|'''''[[The Store (novel)|The Store]]'''''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Doran]] (1932)
|Novel
|[[Tennessee]]
|-
|'''[[1933 in literature|1934]]'''
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|[[Caroline Pafford Miller|Caroline Miller]] <br> (1903–1992)
|'''''[[Lamb in His Bosom]]'''''
|[[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Brothers]] (1933)
|Debut novel
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
|-
|'''[[1934 in literature|1935]]'''
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|[[Josephine Johnson|Josephine Winslow Johnson]] <br> (1910–1990)
|'''''[[Now in November]]'''''
|[[Simon & Schuster]] (1934)
|Debut novel
|[[Missouri]]
|-
|'''[[1935 in literature|1936]]'''
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|[[H. L. Davis|Harold L. Davis]] <br> (1894–1960)
|'''''[[Honey in the Horn]]'''''
|[[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Brothers]] (1935)
|Debut novel
|[[Oregon]]
|-
|'''[[1936 in literature|1937]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Margaret Mitchell NYWTS.jpg|75px]]
|[[Margaret Mitchell]] <br> (1900–1949)
|'''''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]''''' 
|[[Macmillan Inc.|Macmillan Publishers]] (1936)
|Novel
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
|-
|'''[[1937 in literature|1938]]'''
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|[[John P. Marquand|John Phillips Marquand]] <br> (1893–1960)
|'''''[[The Late George Apley]]'''''
|[[Little, Brown and Company]] (1937)
|[[Epistolary novel]]
|[[Delaware]]
|-
|'''[[1938 in literature|1939]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.jpg|75px]]
|[[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]] <br> (1896–1953)
|'''''[[The Yearling]]'''''
|[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] (1938)
|[[Young adult novel]]
|[[Washington, D.C.]]
|-
|'''[[1939 in literature|1940]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:John Steinbeck 1939 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|[[John Steinbeck]] <br> (1902–1968)
|'''''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'''''
|[[Viking Press]] (1939)
|Novel
|[[California]]
|-
|'''[[1940 in literature|1941]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|name=1941award|group=notes|The fiction jury had recommended the 1941 award be shared by ''[[The Trees (Richter novel)|The Trees]]'' by [[Conrad Richter]] and ''[[The Ox-Bow Incident (novel)|The Ox-Bow Incident]]'' by [[Walter Van Tilburg Clark]]. While the Pulitzer Board initially intended to give the award to the jury's third choice, [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'', the president of [[Columbia University]], [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year.<ref name="hohenberg" /><ref name="controversies">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/11/books/publishing-pulitzer-controversies.html|title=PUBLISHING: PULITZER CONTROVERSIES|last=McDowell|first=Edwin|newspaper=The New York Times|date=11 May 1984 |url-access=subscription|access-date=2018-04-19|language=en|quote=[I]n 1941, after both the jury and the board voted to give the fiction prize to Ernest Hemingway's ''For Whom the Bell Tolls,'' Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia and ''[[Ex officio member|ex-officio]]'' chairman of the board, forced the board to change its vote because he found the book offensive.}}</ref>}}
|-
|'''[[1941 in literature|1942]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Portrait of Ellen Glasgow.jpg|75px]]
|[[Ellen Glasgow]] <br> (1873–1945)
|'''''[[In This Our Life (novel)|In This Our Life]]'''''
|[[Jonathan Cape]] (1941)
|Novel
|[[Virginia]]
|-
|'''[[1942 in literature|1943]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Upton Sinclair 1.jpg|75px]]
|[[Upton Sinclair]] <br> (1878–1968)
|'''''[[Dragon's Teeth (novel)|Dragon's Teeth]]'''''
|[[Viking Press]] (1942)
|Historical fiction
|[[Maryland]]
|-
|'''[[1943 in literature|1944]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Martin Flavin.jpg|75px]]
|[[Martin Flavin]] <br> (1883–1967)
|'''''[[Journey in the Dark]]'''''
|[[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Brothers]] (1943)
|Novel
|[[California]]
|-
|'''[[1944 in literature|1945]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Portrait of John Hersey LCCN2004663004.jpg|75px]]
|[[John Hersey]] <br> (1914–1993)
|'''''[[A Bell for Adano (novel)|A Bell for Adano]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1944)
|[[War novel]]
|[[New York (state)|New York]] <br><span style="font-size:90%;">(born in [[Tianjin]], China)</span>
|-
|'''[[1945 in literature|1946]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|name=1941 Award|group=notes|Though ''Apartment in Athens'' by [[Glenway Wescott]], ''The Wayfarers'' by [[Dan Wickenden]], and ''[[Black Boy]]'' by [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]] were each championed by at least one juror, the jury as a whole could not reach a consensus; one point of contention over ''Black Boy'' specifically was that the book is a memoir, not a novel.<ref name="hohenberg"/>}}
|-
|'''[[1946 in literature|1947]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Robert Penn Warren.jpg|75px]]
|[[Robert Penn Warren]] <br> (1905–1989)
|'''''[[All the King's Men]]''''' 
|[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt, Brace & Company]] (1946)
|[[Political fiction]]
|[[Kentucky]]
|-
|'''[[1947 in literature|1948]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:James Albert Michener · DN-SC-92-05368.JPEG|75px]]
|[[James A. Michener]] <br> (1907–1997)
|'''''[[Tales of the South Pacific]]'''''
|[[Macmillan Publishers]] (1947)
|[[Short story collection|Interrelated short stories]], <br> Book debut
|[[Pennsylvania]]
|-
|'''[[1948 in literature|1949]]'''
!scope="row"|
|[[James Gould Cozzens]] <br> (1903–1978)
|'''''[[Guard of Honor]]'''''
|[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt, Brace & Company]] (1948)
|War novel
|[[Illinois]]
|-
|'''[[1949 in literature|1950]]'''
!scope="row"| [[File:A. B. Guthrie 1923 (page 32 crop).jpg|75px]]
|[[A. B. Guthrie Jr.|A. B. Guthrie]] <br> (1901–1991)
|'''''[[The Way West]]'''''
|[[William Sloane (author)|William Sloane Associates]] (1949)
|[[Western fiction]]
|[[Indiana]]
|-
|'''[[1950 in literature|1951]]'''
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|[[Conrad Richter]] <br>  (1890–1968)
|'''''[[The Town (Richter novel)|The Town]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1950)
|Novel
|[[Pennsylvania]]
|-
|'''[[1951 in literature|1952]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Herman Wouk (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|[[Herman Wouk]] <br> (1915–2019)
|'''''[[The Caine Mutiny]]'''''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] (1951)
|Historical fiction
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|-
|'''[[1952 in literature|1953]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Ernest Hemingway 1950 crop.jpg|75px]]
|[[Ernest Hemingway]] <br> (1899–1961)
|'''''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'''''
|[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] (1952)
|[[novella|Short novel]]
|[[Illinois]]
|-
|'''[[1953 in literature|1954]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|group=notes|The two-man fiction jury could not agree on a single book to recommend to the Advisory Board, so no award was given; among the books recommended by juror Eric P. Kelly were ''Ramey'' by [[Jack D. Ferris]], ''The Sands of Karakorum'' by [[James Ramsey Ullman|James Ullman]], ''[[The Adventures of Augie March]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]], and ''The Four Lives of Mundy Tolliver'' by [[Ben Lucien Burman]], while juror Harris F. Fletcher recommended ''The Street of the Three Friends'' by [[Myron Brinig]] and ''The Deep Sleep'' by [[Wright Morris]]<ref name="hohenberg" />}}
|-
|'''[[1954 in literature|1955]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner (greyscale and cropped).jpg|75px]]
|[[William Faulkner]] <br> (1897–1962)
|'''''[[A Fable]]'''''
|[[Random House]] (1954)
|Novel
|[[Mississippi]]
|-
|'''[[1955 in literature|1956]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:MacKinlay Kantor (1950).jpg|75px]]
|[[MacKinlay Kantor]] <br> (1904–1977)
|'''''[[Andersonville (novel)|Andersonville]]'''''
|[[Penguin Books]] (1955)
|Historical fiction
|[[Iowa]]
|-
|'''[[1956 in literature|1957]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|group=notes|The fiction jury had recommended the 1957 award to [[Elizabeth Spencer (writer)#Early life and career|Elizabeth Spencer]]'s ''[[The Voice at the Back Door]]'', but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award.}}
|-
|'''[[1957 in literature|1958]]'''
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|[[James Agee]] <br> (1909–1955)
|'''''[[A Death in the Family]]''''' <br> (posthumously)
|[[Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky|McDowell, Obolensky]] (1957)
|[[autobiography|Autobiographical novel]]
|[[Tennessee]]
|-
|'''[[1958 in literature|1959]]'''
!scope="row"|
|[[Robert Lewis Taylor]] <br> (1912–1998)
|'''''[[The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters]]'''''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] (1958)
|Historical fiction
|[[Illinois]]
|-
|'''[[1959 in literature|1960]]'''
!scope="row"|
|[[Allen Drury]] <br> (1918–1998)
|'''''[[Advise and Consent]]'''''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] (1959)
|Political fiction, <br> Debut novel
|[[Texas]]
|-
|'''[[1960 in literature|1961]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Harper Lee Nov07.JPG|75px]]
|[[Harper Lee]] <br> (1926–2016)
|'''''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'''''
|[[J. B. Lippincott & Co.]] (1960)
|[[Southern Gothic]], <br> [[Bildungsroman]], <br> Debut novel
|[[Alabama]]
|-
|'''[[1961 in literature|1962]]'''
!scope="row"|
|[[Edwin O'Connor]] <br> (1918–1968)
|'''''[[The Edge of Sadness]]'''''
|[[Little, Brown and Company]] (1961)
|Novel
|[[Rhode Island]]
|-
|'''[[1962 in literature|1963]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner (greyscale and cropped).jpg|75px]]
|[[William Faulkner]] <br> (1897–1962)
|'''''[[The Reivers]]''''' <br> (posthumously)
|[[Random House]] (1962)
|Novel
|[[Mississippi]]
|-
|'''[[1963 in literature|1964]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|group=notes|"Among the books the judges most seriously considered were the following: (1) [[Norman Fruchter]]'s ''Coat Upon a Stick''…, (2) [[May Sarton]]'s novella ''Joanna and Ulysses''…, (3) [[Sumner Locke Elliott]]'s ''[[Careful, He Might Hear You (novel)|Careful, He Might Hear You]]''…, [and] (4) [[John Killens]]' ''And Then We Heard the Thunder''… If a prize were to be awarded for a 1963 novel we felt these to be the most serious candidates." However, the fiction jury ultimately recommended that no award be given because "no one of them imposes itself upon us as demanding recognition as 'distinguished fiction'…."<ref name="hohenberg" />}}
|-
|'''[[1964 in literature|1965]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Shirley Ann Grau LCCN97503400.jpg|75px]]
|[[Shirley Ann Grau]] <br> (1929–2020)
|'''''[[The Keepers of the House]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1964)
|Novel
|[[Louisiana]]
|-
|'''[[1965 in literature|1966]]'''
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|[[Katherine Anne Porter]] <br> (1890–1980)
|'''''[[The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter|Collected Stories]]'''''
|[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt Brace]] (1965)
|[[Short story collection]]
|[[Texas]]
|-
|'''[[1966 in literature|1967]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Bernard Malamud portrait.jpg|75px]]
|[[Bernard Malamud]] <br> (1914–1986)
|'''''[[The Fixer (novel)|The Fixer]]'''''
|[[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]] (1966)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|-
|'''[[1967 in literature|1968]]'''
!scope="row"| [[File:William Styron, author, cropped (2).jpg|75px]]
|[[William Styron]] <br> (1925–2006)
|'''''[[The Confessions of Nat Turner]]'''''
|[[Random House]] (1967)
|Novel
|[[Virginia]]
|-
|'''[[1968 in literature|1969]]'''
!scope="row"| [[File:N Scott Momaday 1977 (cropped).jpeg|75px]]
|[[N. Scott Momaday]] <br> (1934–2024)
|'''''[[House Made of Dawn]]'''''
|[[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Row]] (1968)
|Novel
|[[Oklahoma]]
|-
|'''[[1969 in literature|1970]]'''
!scope="row"| [[File:Jean Stafford in 1941 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|[[Jean Stafford]] <br> (1915–1979)
|'''''[[The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford|Collected Stories]]'''''
|[[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]] (1969)
|Short story collection
|[[California]]
|-
|'''[[1970 in literature|1971]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|group=notes|name=1971award|The three novels the Pulitzer committee put forth for consideration to the Pulitzer board were: ''[[Losing Battles]]'' by [[Eudora Welty]]; ''[[Mr. Sammler's Planet]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]]; and ''[[The Wheel of Love]]'' by [[Joyce Carol Oates]]. The board rejected all three and opted for no award.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Novel/Fiction Awards 1917–1994: From Pearl S. Buck and Margaret Mitchell to Ernest Hemingway and John Updike|date=1997|publisher=K.G. Saur|last1=Fischer|first1=Heinz Dietrich|last2=Fischer|first2=Erika J.|isbn=9783110972115|location=München|oclc=811400780|pages=LX-LXI|series=The Pulitzer Prize Archive|volume=10 (in part D, "Belles Lettres")}}</ref>}}
|-
|'''[[1971 in literature|1972]]'''
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|[[Wallace Stegner]] <br> (1909–1993)
|'''''[[Angle of Repose]]'''''
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] (1971)
|Novel
|[[Iowa]]
|-
|'''[[1972 in literature|1973]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Eudora-Welty-1962.jpeg|75px]]
|[[Eudora Welty]] <br> (1909–2001)
|'''''[[The Optimist's Daughter]]'''''
|[[Random House]] (1972)
|Short novel
|[[Mississippi]]
|-
|'''[[1973 in literature|1974]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|group=notes|name=1974award|The fiction jury had unanimously recommended the 1974 award to [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'', but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award.<ref name="controversies" />}}
|-
|'''[[1974 in literature|1975]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Michael Shaara.jpg|75px]]
|[[Michael Shaara]] <br> (1928–1988)
|'''''[[The Killer Angels]]'''''
|[[David McKay Publications]] (1974)
|Historical fiction
|[[New Jersey]]
|-
|'''[[1975 in literature|1976]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Saul Bellow (Herzog portrait).jpg|75px]]
|[[Saul Bellow]] <br> (1915–2005)
|'''''[[Humboldt's Gift]]'''''
|[[Viking Press]] (1975)
|Novel
|[[Illinois]] <br><span style="font-size:90%;">(born in [[Quebec]], Canada)</span> 
|-
|'''[[1976 in literature|1977]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''{{efn|group=notes|name=1977award|The fiction jury had recommended the 1977 award to [[Norman MacLean]]'s ''[[A River Runs Through It (novel)|A River Runs Through It]]'', but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion for awarding the prize, made no award. That same year, however, [[Alex Haley]]'s iconic [[family saga]] ''[[Roots (novel)|Roots]]'' was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize.<ref name="controversies" />}}
|-
|'''[[1977 in literature|1978]]'''
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|[[James Alan McPherson]] <br> (1943–2016)
|'''''[[Elbow Room (short story collection)|Elbow Room]]'''''
|[[Little, Brown and Company|Little, Brown]] (1977)
|Short story collection
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
|-
|'''[[1978 in literature|1979]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Johncheever.jpg|75px]]
|[[John Cheever]] <br> (1912–1982)
|'''''[[The Stories of John Cheever]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1978)
|Short story collection
|[[Massachusetts]] 
|}