Editing Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (section)

===1980s to 2020s===
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed for each year.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!colspan=2 scope="col"|Winner
!colspan=2 scope="col"|Work
!Genre(s)
!Author's origin
!Finalists
|-
|'''[[1979 in literature|1980]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Norman Mailer 1948 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|[[Norman Mailer]] <br> (1923–2007)
|'''''[[The Executioner's Song]]'''''
|[[Little, Brown and Company|Little, Brown]] (1979)
|[[True crime|True crime novel]]
|[[New Jersey]]
|{{bulleted list|[[William Wharton (author)|William Wharton]], ''[[Birdy (novel)|Birdy]]''|[[Philip Roth]], ''[[The Ghost Writer]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1980 in literature|1981]]'''
!scope="row"| <!-- [[WP:NFCC]] violation: [[File:John Kennedy Toole.jpg|75px]] -->
|[[John Kennedy Toole]] <br> (1937–1969)
|'''''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]''''' <br> (posthumously)
|[[Louisiana State University Press]] (1980)
|[[Picaresque novel]]
|[[Louisiana]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Frederick Buechner]], ''[[Godric (novel)|Godric]]''|[[William Keepers Maxwell Jr.|William Maxwell]], ''[[So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)|So Long, See You Tomorrow]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1981 in literature|1982]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:John Updike with Bushes new.jpg|75px]]
|[[John Updike]] <br> (1932–2009)
|'''''[[Rabbit Is Rich]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1981)
|Novel
|[[Pennsylvania]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]], ''A Flag for Sunrise''|[[Marilynne Robinson]], ''[[Housekeeping (novel)|Housekeeping]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1982 in literature|1983]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Alice Walker.jpg|75px]]
|[[Alice Walker]] <br> (b. 1944)
|'''''[[The Color Purple]]'''''
|[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]] (1982)
|Epistolary novel
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Anne Tyler]], ''[[Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant]]''|[[Chaim Grade]], ''Rabbis and Wives''}}
|-
|'''[[1983 in literature|1984]]'''
!scope="row"|
|[[William Kennedy (author)|William Kennedy]] <br> (b. 1928)
|'''''[[Ironweed (novel)|Ironweed]]'''''
|[[Viking Press]] (1983)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Raymond Carver]], ''[[Cathedral (short story collection)|Cathedral]]''|[[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]], ''The Feud''}}
|-
|'''[[1984 in literature|1985]]'''
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|[[Alison Lurie]] <br> (1926–2020)
|'''''[[Foreign Affairs (novel)|Foreign Affairs]]'''''
|[[Random House]] (1984)
|Novel
|[[Illinois]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Diana O'Hehir]], ''I Wish This War Were Over''|[[Douglas Unger]], ''Leaving the Land''}}
|-
|'''[[1985 in literature|1986]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Larry McMurtry Photo Last Picture Show 1966.png|75px]]
|[[Larry McMurtry]] <br> (1936–2021)
|'''''[[Lonesome Dove]]'''''
|[[Simon & Schuster]] (1985)
|[[Western (genre)|Western novel]]
|[[Texas]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Russell Banks]], ''[[Continental Drift (novel)|Continental Drift]]''|[[Anne Tyler]], ''[[The Accidental Tourist]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1986 in literature|1987]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Peter Taylor in 1941 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|[[Peter Taylor (writer)|Peter Taylor]] <br> (1917–1994)
|'''''[[A Summons to Memphis]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1986)
|Novel
|[[Tennessee]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Donald Barthelme]], ''[[Paradise (Barthelme novel)|Paradise]]''|[[Norman Rush]], ''Whites''}}
|-
|'''[[1987 in literature|1988]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Toni Morrison.jpg|75px]]
|[[Toni Morrison]] <br> (1931–2019)
|'''''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1987)
|Novel
|[[Ohio]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Diane Johnson]], ''Persian Nights''|[[Alice McDermott]], ''[[That Night (novel)|That Night]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1988 in literature|1989]]'''
!scope="row"| 
|[[Anne Tyler]] <br> (b. 1941)
|'''''[[Breathing Lessons]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1988)
|Novel
|[[Minnesota]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Raymond Carver]], ''[[Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories|Where I'm Calling From]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1989 in literature|1990]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Hijuelos.jpg|75px]]
|[[Oscar Hijuelos]] <br> (1951–2013)
|'''''[[The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love]]'''''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] (1989)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|{{bulleted list|[[E. L. Doctorow]], ''[[Billy Bathgate]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1990 in literature|1991]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:John Updike with Bushes new.jpg|75px]]
|[[John Updike]] <br> (1932–2009)
|'''''[[Rabbit At Rest]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1990)
|Novel
|[[Pennsylvania]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Linda Hogan (writer)|Linda Hogan]], ''[[Mean Spirit]]''|[[Tim O'Brien (author)|Tim O'Brien]], ''[[The Things They Carried]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1991 in literature|1992]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Jane smiley 2009.jpg|75px]]
|[[Jane Smiley]] <br> (b. 1949)
|'''''[[A Thousand Acres]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1991)
|[[Domestic realism]]
|[[California]]
|{{bulleted list|[[David Gates (author)|David Gates]], ''[[Jernigan (novel)|Jernigan]]''|[[Robert M. Pirsig]], ''[[Lila: An Inquiry into Morals]]''|[[Don DeLillo]], ''[[Mao II]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1992 in literature|1993]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Robert Olen Butler 2016.jpg|75px]]
|[[Robert Olen Butler]] <br> (b. 1945)
|'''''[[A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain]]'''''
|[[Henry Holt and Company|Henry Holt]] (1992)
|Short story collection
|[[Illinois]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Alice McDermott]], ''At Weddings and Wakes''|[[Joyce Carol Oates]], ''[[Black Water (novella)|Black Water]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1993 in literature|1994]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:2018-us-nationalbookfestival-annie-proulx.jpg|75px]]
|[[Annie Proulx|E. Annie Proulx]] <br> (b. 1935)
|'''''[[The Shipping News]]'''''
|[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] (1993)
|Novel
|[[Connecticut]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Philip Roth]], ''[[Operation Shylock|Operation Shylock: A Confession]]''|[[Reynolds Price]], ''The Collected Stories''}}
|-
|'''[[1994 in literature|1995]]'''
!scope="row"| <!-- [[WP:NFCC]] violation: [[File:Carol Shields|75px]] -->
|[[Carol Shields]] <br> (1935–2003)
|'''''[[The Stone Diaries]]'''''
|[[Random House]] (1993)
|Novel
|[[Illinois]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Grace Paley]], ''[[The Collected Stories of Grace Paley|The Collected Stories]]''|[[Joyce Carol Oates]], ''What I Lived For''}}
|-
|'''[[1995 in literature|1996]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Ford, Richard -MBFI.jpg|75px]]
|[[Richard Ford]] <br> (b. 1944)
|'''''[[Independence Day (Ford novel)|Independence Day]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (1995)
|Novel
|[[Mississippi]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Oscar Hijuelos]], ''Mr. Ives' Christmas''|[[Philip Roth]], ''[[Sabbath's Theater]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1996 in literature|1997]]'''
!scope="row"|
|[[Steven Millhauser]] <br> (b. 1943)
|'''''[[Martin Dressler|Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer]]'''''
|[[Crown Publishers]] (1996)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Joanna Scott]], ''The Manikin''|[[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[Unlocking the Air and Other Stories]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1997 in literature|1998]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Philip Roth - 1973.jpg|75px]]
|[[Philip Roth]] <br> (1933–2018)
|'''''[[American Pastoral]]'''''
|[[Houghton Mifflin]] (1997)
|Novel
|[[New Jersey]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]], ''Bear and His Daughter: Stories''|[[Don DeLillo]], ''[[Underworld (novel)|Underworld]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1998 in literature|1999]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Michael Cunningham JB by David Shankbone.jpg|75px]]
|[[Michael Cunningham]] <br> (b. 1952)
|'''''[[The Hours (novel)|The Hours]]'''''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] (1998)
|Historical fiction
|[[Ohio]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Russell Banks]], ''[[Cloudsplitter]]''|[[Barbara Kingsolver]], ''[[The Poisonwood Bible]]''}}
|-
|'''[[1999 in literature|2000]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Jhumpa Lahiri (2015).png|75px]]
|[[Jhumpa Lahiri]] <br> (b. 1967)
|'''''[[Interpreter of Maladies]]'''''
|[[Houghton Mifflin]] (1999)
|Short story collection
|[[Rhode Island]] <br><span style="font-size:90%;">(born in [[London]], United Kingdom)</span> <br><span style="font-size:90%;">(lives in [[Rome]], Italy)</span>
|{{bulleted list|[[Annie Proulx]], ''[[Close Range: Wyoming Stories]]''|[[Ha Jin]], ''[[Waiting (novel)|Waiting]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2000 in literature|2001]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Michael Chabon by Gage Skidmore.jpg|75px]]
|[[Michael Chabon]] <br> (b. 1963)
|'''''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay]]'''''
|[[Random House]] (2000)
|Historical fiction
|[[Washington, D.C.]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Joyce Carol Oates]], ''[[Blonde (novel)|Blonde]]''|[[Joy Williams (American writer)|Joy Williams]], ''The Quick and the Dead''}}
|-
|'''[[2001 in literature|2002]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Richard Russo.jpg|75px]]
|[[Richard Russo]] <br> (b. 1949)
|'''''[[Empire Falls]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (2001)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Colson Whitehead]], ''[[John Henry Days]]''|[[Jonathan Franzen]], ''[[The Corrections]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2002 in literature|2003]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Jeffrey Eugenides 2017.jpg|75px]]
|[[Jeffrey Eugenides]] <br> (b. 1960)
|'''''[[Middlesex (novel)|Middlesex]]'''''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] (2002)
|[[Family saga]]
|[[Michigan]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Andrea Barrett]], ''Servants of the Map: Stories''|[[Adam Haslett]], ''You Are Not a Stranger Here''}}
|-
|'''[[2003 in literature|2004]]'''
!scope="row"| [[File:Poet Edward P. Jones NBF LOC (cropped).png|75px]]
|[[Edward P. Jones]] <br> (b. 1950)
|'''''[[The Known World]]'''''
|[[Amistad Press]] (2003)
|Historical fiction
|[[Washington, D.C.]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Susan Choi]], ''[[American Woman (novel)|American Woman]]''|[[Marianne Wiggins]], ''Evidence of Things Unseen''}}
|-
|'''[[2004 in literature|2005]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Marilynne robinson 8405.jpg|75px]]
|[[Marilynne Robinson]] <br> (b. 1943)
|'''''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'''''
|[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] (2004)
|Epistolary Novel
|[[Idaho]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Ward Just]], ''An Unfinished Season''|[[Ha Jin]], ''[[War Trash]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2005 in literature|2006]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Geraldine Brooks 2002.jpg|75px]]
|[[Geraldine Brooks (writer)|Geraldine Brooks]] <br> (b. 1955)
|'''''[[March (novel)|March]]'''''
|[[Viking Press]] (2005)
|Historical fiction
|[[New York (state)|New York]] <br><span style="font-size:90%;">(born in [[Sydney]], Australia)</span> 
|{{bulleted list|[[Lee Martin (writer)|Lee Martin]], ''The Bright Forever''|[[E. L. Doctorow]], ''[[The March (novel)|The March]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2006 in literature|2007]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Cormac McCarthy (Child of God author portrait - high-res).jpg|75px]]
|[[Cormac McCarthy]] <br> (1933–2023)
|'''''[[The Road]]'''''
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (2006)
|[[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|Post-apocalyptic fiction]]
|[[Rhode Island]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Alice McDermott]], ''[[After This]]''|[[Richard Powers]], ''[[The Echo Maker]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2007 in literature|2008]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Junot Díaz (cropped).jpg|75px]]
|[[Junot Díaz]] <br> (b. 1968)
|'''''[[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]'''''
|[[Riverhead Books]] (2007)
|Novel
|[[New Jersey]] <br><span style="font-size:90%;">(born in [[Santo Domingo]], Dominican Republic)</span> 
|{{bulleted list|[[Lore Segal]], ''Shakespeare's Kitchen''|[[Denis Johnson]], ''[[Tree of Smoke]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2008 in literature|2009]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Elizabeth Strout 2015.jpg|75px]]
|[[Elizabeth Strout]] <br> (b. 1956)
|'''''[[Olive Kitteridge]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine that packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2009|title=2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Random House]] (2008)
|Interrelated short stories
|[[Maine]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Christine Schutt]], ''[[All Souls (novel)|All Souls]]''|[[Louise Erdrich]], ''[[The Plague of Doves]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2009 in literature|2010]]'''
!scope="row"|
|[[Paul Harding (author)|Paul Harding]] <br> (b. 1967)
|'''''[[Tinkers (novel)|Tinkers]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2010|title=2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Bellevue Literary Press]] (2009)
|Debut novel
|[[Massachusetts]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Daniyal Mueenuddin]], ''[[In Other Rooms, Other Wonders]]''|[[Lydia Millet]], ''Love in Infant Monkeys''}}
|-
|'''[[2010 in literature|2011]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Jennifer Egan BBF 2010 Shankbone.jpg|75px]]
|[[Jennifer Egan]] <br> (b. 1962)
|'''''[[A Visit from the Goon Squad]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2011|title=2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] (2010)
|Interrelated short stories
|[[Illinois]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Jonathan Dee]], ''The Privileges''|[[Chang-rae Lee]], ''[[The Surrendered]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2011 in literature|2012]]'''
|colspan=6 align=center |''Not awarded''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2012|title=2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=24 December 2017}}</ref>
|{{bulleted list|[[Karen Russell]], ''[[Swamplandia!]]''|[[David Foster Wallace]], ''[[The Pale King]]'' (posthumously)|[[Denis Johnson]], ''[[Train Dreams]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2012 in literature|2013]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Adam Johnson Writer Water Meter.JPG|75px]]
|[[Adam Johnson (writer)|Adam Johnson]] <br> (b. 1967)
|'''''[[The Orphan Master's Son]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2013|title=2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Random House]] (2012)
|Novel
|[[South Dakota]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Eowyn Ivey]], ''[[The Snow Child]]''|[[Nathan Englander]], ''[[What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2013 in literature|2014]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Donna Tartt.jpg|75px]]
|[[Donna Tartt]] <br> (b. 1963)
|'''''[[The Goldfinch (novel)|The Goldfinch]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters that follows a grieving boy's entanglement with a small famous painting that has eluded destruction, a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2014|title=2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Little, Brown and Company]] (2013)
|Novel
|[[Mississippi]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Philipp Meyer]], ''[[The Son (Meyer novel)|The Son]]''|[[Bob Shacochis]], ''The Woman Who Lost Her Soul''}}
|-
|'''[[2014 in literature|2015]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Anthony Doerr (2015).jpg|75px]]
|[[Anthony Doerr]] <br> (b. 1973)
|'''''[[All the Light We Cannot See]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2015|title=2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] (2014)
|War novel
|[[Ohio]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Richard Ford]], ''[[Let Me Be Frank With You]]''|[[Joyce Carol Oates]], ''Lovely, Dark, Deep''|[[Laila Lalami]], ''[[The Moor's Account]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2015 in literature|2016]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Viet Thanh Nguyen - 2015 National Book Festival.JPG|75px]]
|[[Viet Thanh Nguyen]] <br> (b. 1971)
|'''''[[The Sympathizer]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a "man of two minds" -- and two countries, Vietnam and the United States."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2016|title=2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Grove Press]] (2015)
|Debut novel
|[[California]] <br><span style="font-size:90%;">(born in [[Buôn Ma Thuột]], Vietnam)</span> 
|{{bulleted list|[[Kelly Link]], ''[[Get in Trouble|Get in Trouble: Stories]]''|[[Margaret Verble]], ''Maud's Line''}}
|-
|'''[[2016 in literature|2017]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Colson whitehead 2009.jpg|75px]]
|[[Colson Whitehead]] <br> (b. 1969)
|'''''[[The Underground Railroad (novel)|The Underground Railroad]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"For a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2017|title=2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] (2016)
|[[Alternate history|Alternate historical novel]]
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Adam Haslett]], ''[[Imagine Me Gone]]''|[[C. E. Morgan]], ''[[The Sport of Kings (novel)|The Sport of Kings]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2017 in literature|2018]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Pulitzer2018-andrew-sean-greer-20180530-wp.jpg|75px]]
|[[Andrew Sean Greer]] <br> (b. 1970)
|'''''[[Less (novel)|Less]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018|title=2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Little, Brown and Company]] (2017)
|[[Satire|Satirical novel]]
|[[Washington, D.C.]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Hernan Diaz (writer)|Hernan Diaz]], ''[[In the Distance]]''|[[Elif Batuman]], ''[[The Idiot (Batuman novel)|The Idiot]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2018 in literature|2019]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Richard Powers (author).jpg|75px]]
|[[Richard Powers]] <br> (b. 1957) 
|'''''[[The Overstory]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"An ingeniously structured narrative that branches and canopies like the trees at the core of the story whose wonder and connectivity echo those of the humans living amongst them."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019|title=2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[W. W. Norton & Company]] (2018)
|Novel
|[[Illinois]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Rebecca Makkai]], ''The Great Believers''|[[Tommy Orange]], ''[[There There (novel)|There There]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2019 in literature|2020]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Colson whitehead 2009.jpg|75px]]
|[[Colson Whitehead]] <br> (b. 1969)
|'''''[[The Nickel Boys]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020|title=2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=14 January 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] (2019)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Ann Patchett]], ''[[The Dutch House (novel)|The Dutch House]]''|[[Ben Lerner]], ''[[The Topeka School]]''}}
|-
|'''[[2020 in literature|2021]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Louise_erdrich_8199.jpg|75px]]
|[[Louise Erdrich]] <br> (b. 1954)
|'''''[[The Night Watchman (novel)|The Night Watchman]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021|title=2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org) |access-date=11 June 2021}}</ref>}}
|[[Harper (publisher)|Harpercollins]] (2020)
|Novel
|[[Minnesota]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Daniel Mason]], ''A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth''|[[Percival Everett]], ''Telephone''}}
|-
|'''[[2021 in literature|2022]]'''
!scope="row"|[[File:Joshua Cohen BBF 2010 Shankbone.jpg|75px]]
|[[Joshua Cohen (writer)|Joshua Cohen]] <br> (b. 1980)
|'''''[[The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as its tightly-wound plot."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year|title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org)|accessdate=9 May 2022}}</ref>}}
|[[New York Review Books]] (2021)
|Novel
|[[New Jersey]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Francisco Goldman]], ''Monkey Boy''|[[Gayl Jones]], ''[[Palmares (Jones novel)|Palmares]]''}}
|-
|rowspan=2|'''[[2022 in literature|2023]]<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Sophia |date=2023-05-08 |title='Demon Copperhead,' 'Trust,' 'His Name Is George Floyd' Among 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/92233-demon-copperhead-trust-his-name-is-george-floyd-among-2023-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>'''
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|[[Hernan Diaz (writer)|Hernan Diaz]] <br> (b. 1973)
|'''''[[Trust (novel)|Trust]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year|title=2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org)|accessdate=8 May 2023}}</ref>}}
|[[Riverhead Books]] (2022)
|Novel
|[[New York (state)|New York]] <br><span style="font-size:90%;">(born in Argentina)</span>
|rowspan=2|{{bulleted list|[[Vauhini Vara]], ''[[The Immortal King Rao]]''}}
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|[[Barbara Kingsolver]] <br> (b. 1955)
|'''''[[Demon Copperhead]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year|title=2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org)|accessdate=8 May 2023}}</ref>}}
|[[Harper (publisher)|Harper]] (2022)
|Novel
|[[Kentucky]]
|-
|'''[[2024 in literature|2024]]'''
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|[[Jayne Anne Phillips]] <br> (b. 1952)
|'''''[[Night Watch (Phillips novel)|Night Watch]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia's Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War, where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year|title=2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org)|accessdate=6 May 2024}}</ref>}}
|[[Knopf]] (2023)
|Novel
|[[West Virginia]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Yiyun Li]], [[Wednesday's Child (short story collection) | ''Wednesday's Child'']]|[[Ed Park]], [[Same Bed Different Dreams (novel) | ''Same Bed Different Dreams'']]}}
|-
|'''[[2025 in literature|2025]]'''
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|[[Percival Everett]] <br> (b. 1956)
|'''''[[James (novel)|James]]'''''{{efn|group=notes|"An accomplished reconsideration of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ that gives agency to Jim to illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy and provide a new take on the search for family and freedom."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year|title=2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org)|accessdate=5 May 2024}}</ref>}}
|[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] (2024)
|Novel
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
|{{bulleted list|[[Rita Bullwinkel]], ''Headshot: A Novel''|[[Gayl Jones]], ''The Unicorn Woman''|[[Stacey Levine]], ''Mice 1961''}}
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