For Poetry

1922 to Present

1922 Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
1923 The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper)
1924 New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost (Holt)
1925 The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
1926 What's O'Clock by the late Amy Lowell (Houghton)
1927 Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer (Knopf)
1928 Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
1929 John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)
1930 Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken (Scribner)
1931 Collected Poems by Robert Frost (Holt)
1932 The Flowering Stone by George Dillon (Viking)
1933 Conquistador by Archibald Macleish (Houghton)
1934 Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer (Knopf)
1935 Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann (John Day)
1936 Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Macmillan)
1937 A Further Range by Robert Frost (Holt)
1938 Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska (Macmillan)
1939 Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher (Farrar)
1940 Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren (Holt)
1941 Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon (Harper)
1942 The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet (Dodd)
1943 A Witness Tree by Robert Frost (Holt)
1944 Western Star by the late Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)
1945 V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro (Reynal)
1946 (No Award)
1947 Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell (Harcourt)
1948 The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden (Random)
1949 Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck (Scribner)
1950 Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper)
1951 Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt)
1952 Collected Poems by Marianne Moore (Macmillan)
1953 Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton)
1954 The Waking by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday)
1955 Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens (Knopf)
1956 Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton)
1957 Things of This World by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt)
1958 Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
1959 Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz (Little)
1960 Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass (Knopf)
1961 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
1962 Poems by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ. Press)
1963 Pictures from Brueghel by the late William Carlos Williams (New Directions)
1964 At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
1965 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (Farrar)
1966 Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart (New Directions)
1967 Live or Die by Anne Sexton (Houghton)
1968 The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum)
1969 Of Being Numerous by George Oppen (New Directions)
1970 Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard (Atheneum)
1971 The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin (Atheneum)
1972 Collected Poems by James Wright (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
1973 Up Country by Maxine Kumin (Harper)
1974 The Dolphin by Robert Lowell (Farrar)
1975 Turtle Island by Gary Snyder (New Directions)
1976 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery (Viking)
1977 Divine Comedies by James Merrill (Atheneum)
1978 Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago)
1979 Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
1980 Selected Poems by Donald Justice (Atheneum)
1981 The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus)
1982 The Collected Poems by the late Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)
1983 Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin)
1984 American Primitive by Mary Oliver (Atlantic-Little, Brown)
1985 Yin by Carolyn Kizer (BOA Editions)
1986 The Flying Change by Henry Taylor (Louisiana State University Press)
1987 Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove (Carnegie-Mellon University Press)
1988 Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1990 The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1991 Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 Selected Poems by James Tate (Wesleyan University Press)
1993 The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck (The Ecco Press)
1994 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England)
1995 The Simple Truth by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press)
1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
1998 Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1999 Blizzard of One by Mark Strand (Alfred A. Knopf)
2000 Repair by C.K. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2001 Different Hours by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company)
2002 Practical Gods by Carl Dennis (Penguin Books)
2003 Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
2005 Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
2006 Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)


For Novels
1917 to Present

1917 (No Award)
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1920 (No Award)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)
1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)
1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)
1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)
1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1941 (No Award)
1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)
1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)
1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)
1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)
1946 (No Award)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)
1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane)
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1954 (No Award)
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)
1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
1957 (No Award)
1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)
1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)
1964 (No Award)
1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)
1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
1971 (No Award)
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)
1973 The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1974 (No Award)
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)
1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)
1977 (No Award)
1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)
1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little, Brown)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf), the latest novel in a memorable sequence
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)