Current and historical winners of the Pulitzer Prize, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

Pulitzer Prize

Joseph Pulitzer, a renowned journalist, established this award in 1917. Since 1984 Pulitzer winners have received their prizes from the president of Columbia University at a luncheon in May in the rotunda of the Low Library in the presence of family members, professional associates, board members, and the faculty of the School of Journalism. If you'd like to learn more, you can read our history and overview of the Pulitzer Prize.

Current and Previous Award Winners:

• 2025
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002

• 2025

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  James  by  Percival Everett
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause  by  Benjamin Nathans
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Every Living Thing  by  Jason Roberts
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Memoir/Autobiography:
  Feeding Ghosts  by  Tessa Hulls
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Native Nations  by  Kathleen DuVal
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  COMBEE  by  Edda L. Fields-Black
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  New and Selected Poems  by  Marie Howe

• 2024

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Night Watch  by  Jayne Anne Phillips
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  A Day in the Life of Abed Salama  by  Nathan Thrall
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Master Slave Husband Wife  by  Ilyon Woo
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  King  by  Jonathan Eig
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Memoir/Autobiography:
  Liliana's Invincible Summer  by  Cristina Rivera Garza
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  No Right to an Honest Living  by  Jacqueline Jones
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Tripas  by  Brandon Som

• 2023

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Trust  by  Hernan Diaz
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Demon Copperhead  by  Barbara Kingsolver
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  His Name Is George Floyd  by  Robert Samuels
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  G-Man  by  Beverly Gage
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Memoir/Autobiography:
  Stay True  by  Hua Hsu
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Freedom's Dominion  by  Jefferson Cowie
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Then the War  by  Carl Phillips

• 2022

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Netanyahus  by  Joshua Cohen
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Invisible Child  by  Andrea Elliott
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Chasing Me to My Grave  by  Winfred Rembert
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Cuba  by  Ada Ferrer
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Covered with Night  by  Nicole Eustace
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  frank  by  Diane Seuss

• 2021

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Night Watchman  by  Louise Erdrich
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Wilmington's Lie  by  David Zucchino
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  The Dead Are Arising  by  Les Payne
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Franchise  by  Marcia Chatelain
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Postcolonial Love Poem  by  Natalie Diaz

• 2020

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Nickel Boys  by  Colson Whitehead
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The End of the Myth  by  Greg Grandin
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The Undying  by  Anne Boyer
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Sontag  by  Benjamin Moser
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Sweet Taste of Liberty  by  W.Caleb McDaniel
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  The Tradition  by  Jericho Brown

• 2019

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Overstory  by  Richard Powers
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Amity and Prosperity  by  Eliza Griswold
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  The New Negro  by  Jeffrey C. Stewart
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Frederick Douglass  by  David W. Blight
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Be With  by  Forrest Gander

• 2018

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Less  by  Andrew Sean Greer
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Locking Up Our Own  by  James Forman Jr.
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Prairie Fires  by  Caroline Fraser
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  The Gulf  by  Jack E. Davis
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Half-light  by  Frank Bidart

• 2017

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Underground Railroad  by  Colson Whitehead
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Evicted  by  Matthew Desmond
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  The Return  by  Hisham Matar
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Blood in the Water  by  Heather Ann Thompson
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Olio  by  Tyehimba Jess

• 2016

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Sympathizer  by  Viet Thanh Nguyen
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Black Flags  by  Joby Warrick
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Barbarian Days  by  William Finnegan
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Custer's Trials  by  T.J. Stiles
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Ozone Journal  by  Peter Balakian

• 2015

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  All the Light We Cannot See  by  Anthony Doerr
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The Sixth Extinction  by  Elizabeth Kolbert
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  The Pope and Mussolini  by  David Kertzer
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Encounters at the Heart of the World  by  Elizabeth A. Fenn
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Digest  by  Gregory Pardlo

• 2014

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Goldfinch  by  Donna Tartt
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Toms River  by  Dan Fagin
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Margaret Fuller  by  Megan Marshall
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  The Internal Enemy  by  Alan Taylor
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  3 Sections  by  Vijay Seshadri

• 2013

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Orphan Master's Son  by  Adam Johnson
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Devil in the Grove  by  Gilbert King
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  The Black Count  by  Tom Reiss
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Embers of War  by  Fredrik Logevall
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Stag's Leap  by  Sharon Olds

• 2012

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The Swerve  by  Stephen Greenblatt
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  George F. Kennan  by  John Lewis Gaddis
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Malcolm X  by  Manning Marable
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Life on Mars  by  Tracy K. Smith

• 2011

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  A Visit from the Goon Squad  by  Jennifer Egan
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The Emperor of All Maladies  by  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Washington  by  Ron Chernow
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  The Fiery Trial  by  Eric Foner
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  The Best of It  by  Kay Ryan

• 2010

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Tinkers  by  Paul Harding
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The Dead Hand  by  David E. Hoffman
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  The First Tycoon  by  T.J. Stiles
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Lords of Finance  by  Liaquat Ahamed
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  Versed  by  Rae Armantrout

• 2009

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Olive Kitteridge  by  Elizabeth Strout
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Slavery by Another Name  by  Douglas Blackmon
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  American Lion  by  Jon Meacham
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  The Hemingses of Monticello  by  Annette Gordon-Reed

• 2008

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao  by  Junot Diaz
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The Years of Extermination  by  Saul Friedlander
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Eden's Outcasts  by  John Matteson
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  What Hath God Wrought  by  Daniel Walker Howe

• 2007

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Road  by  Cormac McCarthy
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11  by  Lawrence Wright
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  The Most Famous Man in America  by  Debby Applegate
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  The Race Beat  by  Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff

• 2006

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  March  by  Geraldine Brooks
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Imperial Reckoning  by  Caroline Elkins
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  American Prometheus  by  Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Polio  by  David M. Oshinsky

• 2005

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Gilead  by  Marilynne Robinson
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Ghost Wars  by  Steve Coll
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  De Kooning  by  Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Washington's Crossing  by  David Hackett Fischer

• 2004

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Known World  by  Edward Jones
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Gulag  by  Anne Applebaum
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Khrushchev  by  William Taubman
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  A Nation under Our Feet  by  Steven Hahn

• 2003

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Middlesex  by  Jeffrey Eugenides
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  A Problem from Hell  by  Samantha Power
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Master of the Senate  by  Robert Caro
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  An Army at Dawn  by  Rick Atkinson

• 2002

  
  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  Empire Falls  by  Richard Russo
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Carry Me Home  by  Diane McWhorter
  
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  John Adams  by  David McCullough
  
  Pulitzer Prize for History:
  The Metaphysical Club  by  Louis Menand