Fiction Pulitzer Prize Winners - Regionals

1992

A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley

1993

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler

1994

The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx

1995

The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields

1996

Independence Day, by Richard Ford

1997

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser

1998

American Pastoral, by Philip Roth

1999

The Hours, by Michael Cunningham

2000

Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri

2001

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon

2002

Empire Falls, by Richard Russo

2003

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

2004

The Known World, by Edward P. Jones

2005

Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

2006

March, by Geraldine Brooks

2007

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

2008

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz

2009

Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout

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.

2010

Tinkers, by Paul Harding

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.

2011

A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.

2012

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