Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was created in 1948.

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.

Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.

Martin Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Journey in the Dark. The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the category from "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948.

The 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction was Richard Russo for his novel "Empire Falls."

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Road.

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The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize in the Novel category. The Pulitzer Prize board changed the category to "Fiction" in 1948.

Alison Lurie won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel Foreign Affairs (Random House).

Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.

Philip Roth won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel, American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin).

The novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.

Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.

William Kennedy's novel, Ironweed, won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.

Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Road.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (first black woman).

Alison Lurie won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel Foreign Affairs (Random House).

Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her 1987 novel, Beloved, which explores issues of slavery.

Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved, in 1988. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won a Pulitzer Prize for best Novel in 1940.

"The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1919.

Larry McMurty's Western saga, Lonesome Dove, won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was later adapted as a television miniseries.

Herman Wouk won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Caine Mutiny.(Doubleday)

John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for Novels for his book The Grapes of Wrath in 1940.

Author Toni Morrison wrote Beloved, the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction.

Pearl S. Buck won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, The Good Earth.

In 1983, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her acclaimed novel, The Color Purple.

Dorothy Uhnak is one Pulitzer Prize winner with a last name starting with the letter U. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963 for her novel "The Bunyip."

Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, was published in 1982 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.

Edward P. Jones won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Known World.

In 1983, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her acclaimed novel, The Color Purple.

In 1983, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her acclaimed novel, The Color Purple.

James Michener won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel Tales of the South Pacific.

"Larry" Richard Russo wrote "Empire Falls" which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002, and it is his most acclaimed work. "Foreign Affairs" is a novel by American author Alison Lurie, and it also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1985.

Jhumpa Lahiri, the first Indian woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize, was awarded the 2000 Prize in Fiction for her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies,(Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin). Lahiri was also the recipient of an O.Henry Prize and was included in the anthology, Best of Short Fiction for 1999 for the story "A Temporary Matter."

American Pastoral, by Philip Roth

The Pulitzer Prize(s) was first awarded in 1917. Contrary to popular belief, there is more than one Pulitzer given each year. Prizes are awarded for a number of subcategories under both Journalism and Letters, Drama and Music.

The last book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award was "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2020 and the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019.

Junot Diaz won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

The Pulitzer Prize winner in 1961 that starts with a "T" was Theodore H. White for General Non-Fiction for his book "The Making of the President, 1960."

Writer and philosopher Carl Sandburg declined a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Abraham Lincoln in 1940 because he did not want to accept the prize unless it was awarded through the usual process.

John Updike won the Pulitzer twice. The first one was for "Rabbit is Rich" in 1981, and the sceond was for its successor "Rabbit at Rest" in 1991.

"The Color Purple" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.

First write a really great book, get recognized, and you get nominated.

yes, she was the first African American woman to ever receive the prize for a fiction novel