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The Pulitzer Prize: Previous Winners

2006

FICTION
March
by Geraldine Brooks

BIOGRAPHY
American Prometheus
by Kai Bird

HISTORY
Polio
by David Oshinksy

GENERAL NONFICTION
Imperial Reckoning
by Caroline Elkins

POETRY
Late Wife
by Claudia Emerson


2005

FICTION
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson

BIOGRAPHY
De Kooning
by Mark Stevens

HISTORY
Washington's Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer

GENERAL NONFICTION
Ghost Wars
by Steve Coll

POETRY
Delights and Shadows
by Ted Kooser

DRAMA
Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley


2004

FICTION
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones

BIOGRAPHY
Khrushchev
by William Taubman

HISTORY
One Nation Under Our Feet
by Steven Hahn

GENERAL NONFICTION
Gulag
by Anne Applebaum

POETRY
Walking to Martha's Vineyard
by Franz Wright

DRAMA
I Am My Own Wife
by Doug Wright


2003

FICTION
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides

BIOGRAPHY
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro

HISTORY
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson

GENERAL NONFICTION
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power

POETRY
Moy Sand and Gravel: Poems
by Paul Muldoon

DRAMA
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks


2002

FICTION
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo

HISTORY
The Metaphysical Club
by Louis Menand

BIOGRAPHY
John Adams
by David McCullough

POETRY
Practical Gods
by Carl Dennis

GENERAL NONFICTION
Carry Me Home
Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by Diane McWhorter

DRAMA
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks


2001

FICTION
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon

HISTORY
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis

BIOGRAPHY
W.E.B. Du Bois: Volume Two: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
by David Levering Lewis

POETRY
Different Hours: Poems
by Stephen Dunn

GENERAL NONFICTION
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix

DRAMA
Proof: A Play
by David Auburn


2000

FICTION
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri

HISTORY
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by David M. Kennedy, C. Vann Woodward

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
by Stacy Schiff

POETRY
Repair
by C.K. Williams

GENERAL NONFICTION
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower

DRAMA
Dinner With Friends
by Donald Margulies


1999

FICTION
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham

HISTORY
Gotham
by Edwin G. Burrows,Mike Wallace

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Lindbergh
by A. Scott Berg

POETRY
Blizzard of One: Poems
by Mark Strand

GENERAL NONFICTION
Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee

DRAMA
Wit
by Margaret Edson


1998

FICTION
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth

HISTORY
Summer for the Gods
by Edward J. Larson

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Personal History
by Katharine Graham

POETRY
Black Zodiac
by Charles Wright

GENERAL NONFICTION
Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond


1997

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt

HISTORY
Original Meanings
by Jack N. Rakove

POETRY
Alive Together
by Lisel Mueller

GENERAL NONFICTION
Ashes to Ashes
by Richard Kluger

FICTION
Martin Dressler
by Steven Millhauser


1996

HISTORY
William Cooper's Town
by Alan Taylor

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
God: A Biography
by Jack Miles

POETRY
The Dream of the Unified Field
by Jorie Graham

FICTION
Independence Day
by Richard Ford

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Haunted Land
by Tina Rosenberg


1995

FICTION
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields

HISTORY
No Ordinary Time
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Joan D. Hedrick

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Beak of the Finch
by Jonathan Weiner

POETRY
The Simple Truth
by Philip Levine


1994

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919
by David Levering Lewis

GENERAL NONFICTION
Lenin's Tomb
by David Remnick

FICTION
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx

POETRY
Neon Vernacular
by Yusef Komunyakaa


1993

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Truman
by David McCullough

GENERAL NONFICTION
Lincoln at Gettysburg
by Garry Wills

HISTORY
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by Gordon S. Wood

POETRY
The Wild Iris
by Louise Gluck

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


1992

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Prize
by Daniel Yergin

POETRY
Selected Poems
by James Tate

FICTION
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Fortunate Son
by Lewis B. Puller, Jr.

HISTORY
The Fate of Liberty
by Mark E. Neely, Jr.


1991

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Ants
by Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson

FICTION
Rabbit At Rest
by John Updike

HISTORY
A Midwife's Tale
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

POETRY
Near Changes
by Mona Van Duyn

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jackson Pollock
by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith


1990

POETRY
The World Doesn't End
by Charles Simic

GENERAL NONFICTION
And Their Children After Them
by Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson

FICTION
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
by Oscar Hijuelos

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Machiavelli in Hell
by Sebastian De Grazia

HISTORY
In Our Image
by Stanley Karnow


1989

FICTION
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler

HISTORY
Battle Cry of Freedom
by James M. McPherson
Parting the Waters
by Taylor Branch

GENERAL NONFICTION
A Bright Shining Lie
by Neil Sheehan

POETRY
New and Collected Poems
by Richard Wilbur

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oscar Wilde
by Richard Ellmann


1988

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
by David Herbert Donald

GENERAL NONFICTION
Dark Sun: The Making Of The Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes

HISTORY
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876
by Robert V. Bruce

FICTION
Beloved
by Toni Morrison

POETRY
Partial Accounts
by William Meredith


1987

HISTORY
Voyagers to the West
by Bernard Bailyn

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Bearing the Cross
by David J. Garrow

GENERAL NONFICTION
Arab and Jew
by David K. Shipler

FICTION
A Summons to Memphis
by Peter Taylor

POETRY
Thomas and Beulah
by Rita Dove


1986

BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Louise Bogan
by Elizabeth Frank

POETRY
The Flying Change
by Henry Taylor

GENERAL NONFICTION
Common Ground
by J. Anthony Lukas

Move Your Shadow
by Joseph Lelyveld

FICTION
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry

HISTORY
The Heavens and the Earth
by Walter A. McDougall


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