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• 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
• 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
• 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
• 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
• 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
• 1953See also 1952 in literature, other events of 1953, 1954 in literature, list of years in literature. Events January 22 The Crucible a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway. February 19 Censorship: The State of Georgia approves the first literature cens: The Old Man and the SeaThe Old Man and the Sea is a novel by Ernest Hemingway which tells the story of an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles to make one last haul. When he pulls in a huge marlin, he has to fight to keep it. The novel was Hemingway's last popular novel, which b by Ernest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway ( July 21, 1899 July 2, 1961) was an American author. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho. Hemingway was one of the 20th century's most important and influential writers, and many details of h
• 1954See also 1953 in literature, other events of 1954, 1955 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Under the Net by Iris Murdoch is published. Lord of the Flies by William G. Golding is published. New Books The Acrobats Mordecai Richler Benton's R: no award given
• 1955See also 1954 in literature, other events of 1955, 1956 in literature, list of years in literature. Events First issue of the Guinness Book of Records published. The Ginger Man by J. Donleavy is published. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published. New Book: A Fable by William FaulknerCarl Van Vechten, 1954 William Cuthbert Faulkner ( September 25, 1897 July 6, 1962) was a novelist from the Southern United States. Though his works are sometimes challenging or even difficult, he is generally regarded as one of America's most important f
• 1956See also 1955 in literature, other events of 1956, 1957 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice. Finished in 1952, Egyptian: Andersonville by MacKinlay KantorMacKinlay Kantor ( 1904 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his novel Andersonville''. Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa. He published his first poem at the age of 17, and at 18 he won a s
• 1957: no award given
• 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
• 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
• 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
• 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
• 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
• 1964: no award given
• 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
• 1966: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
• 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
• 1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
• 1971: no award given
• 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
• 1974: no award given ¹
• 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
• 1977: no award given
• 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
• 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
• 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
• 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
• 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
• 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
• 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
• 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
• 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
• 1991: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
• 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 (BooksEnthsiast.com) by Edward P. Jones

¹ The fiction jury voted unanimously to grant the 1974 award to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, but the rest of the Pulitzer panel overturned this decision.