Pulitzer Prize Fiction (1967-1990)

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)

1972

Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)

1973

The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty (Random)

1975

The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara (McKay)

1976

Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow (Viking)

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)

1981

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole (Louisiana State U. Press)

1982

Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike (Knopf)

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)