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| Links in red are to individuals, not works | Links in red are to individuals, not works |
1917 | No Award | No Award | No Award | Laura E. Richards Maude H. Elliot Florence H. Hall Julia Ward Howe |
J. J. Jusserand With Americans of Past and Present Days |
1918 | Ernest Poole His Family |
Jesse L. Williams Why Marry? |
Sara Teasdale Love Songs |
William C. Bruce Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed |
James F. Rhodes A History of The Civil War |
1919 | Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons |
No Award | Margaret Widdemer Old Road to Paradise Carl Sandburg Cornhuskers |
Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams |
No Award | 1920 | No Award | Eugene O'Neill Beyond the Horizon |
No Award | Albert J. Beveridge The Life of John Marshall |
Justin H. Smith The War with Mexico |
1921 | Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence |
Zona Gale Miss Lulu Bett |
No Award | Edward Bok The Americanization of Edward Bok |
William S. Sims Burton J. Hendrick The Victory at Sea |
1922 | Booth Tarkington
Alice Adams |
Eugene O'Neill Anna Christie |
Edwin Arlington Robinson Collected Poems |
Hamlin Garland A Daughter of the Middle Border |
James Truslow Adams The Founding of New England |
1923 | Willa Cather One of Ours |
Owen Davis Icebound |
Edna St. Vincent Millay The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver; A Few Figs from Thistles; Eight Sonnets |
Burton J. Hendrick Life and Letters of Walter Hines Page |
Charles Warren The Supreme Court in United States History |
1924 | Margaret Wilson The Able McLaughlins |
Hatcher Hughes Hell-Bent for Heaven |
Robert Frost New Hampshire |
Michael Pupin From Immigrant to Inventor [Autobiography] |
Charles H. McIlwain The American Revolution, A Constitutional Interpretation |
1925 | Edna Ferber So Big |
Sidney Howard They Knew What They Wanted |
Edwin Arlington Robinson The Man Who Died Twice |
M. A. DeW. Howe Barrett Wendell and His Letters |
Frederic L. Paxon A History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 |
1926 | Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith (Award declined) |
George Kelly Craig's Wife |
Amy Lowell What's O'Clock? |
Harvey Cushing Life of Sir William Osler |
Edward Channing The War for Southern Independence |
1927 | Louis Bromfield Early Autumn |
Paul Green In Abraham's Bosom |
Leonora Speyer Fiddler's Farewell |
Emory Holloway Whitman; An Interpretation in Narrative |
Samuel F. Bemis Pickney's Treaty: A Study of America's Advantage from Europe's Distress |
1928 | Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Eugene O'Neill Strange Interlude |
Edwin Arlington Robinson Tristram |
C. E. Russell The American Orchestra adn Theodore Thomas |
Vernon L. Parrington Main Currents in American Thought (Vols. 1 and 2) |
1929 | Julia Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary |
Elmer Rice Street Scene |
Stephen Vincent Benet John Brown's Body |
Burton J. Hendrick The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter Hines Page |
Fred Albert Shannon Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 |
1930 | Oliver LaFarge Laughing Boy |
Marc Connelly The Green Pastures |
Conrad Aiken Selected Poems |
Marquis James The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston |
Claude H. Van Tyne The War of Independence |
1931 | Margaret Ayer Barnes Years of Grace |
Susan Glaspell Alison's House |
Robert Frost Collected Poems |
Henry James Charles W. Eliot |
Bernadotte E. Schnitt The Coming of the War: 1914 |
1932 | Pearl Buck The Good Earth |
George Kaufman Morrie Ryskind Of Thee I Sing |
George Dillon The Flowering Stone |
Henry Pringle Thoedore Roosevelt |
John J. Pershing My Experiences in the World War |
1933 | T. S. Stribling The Store |
Maxwell Anderson Both Your Houses |
Archibald MacLeish Conquistador |
Allan Nevins Grover Cleveland |
Frederick J. Turner The Significance of Sections in American History |
1934 | Caroline Miller Lamb in His Bosom |
Sidney Kingsley Men in White |
Robert Hillyer Collected Verse |
Tyler Dennett John Hay |
Herbert Agar The People's Choice |
1935 | Josephine Johnson Now in November |
Zoe Akins The Old Maid |
Audrey Wurdemann Bright Ambush |
Douglas Freeman R. E. Lee |
Charles McL. Andrews The Colonial Period of American History (Vol. 1) |
1936 | H. L. Davis Honey in the Horn |
Robert Sherwood Idiot's Delight |
Robert Coffin Strange Holiness |
Ralph B. Perry The Thought and Character of William James |
Andrew C. McLaughlin Constitutional History of the United States |
1937 | Margeret Mitchell Gone With the Wind |
George Kaufman
Moss Hart Ira Gershwin You Can't Take It With You |
Robert Frost A Further Range |
Allan Nevins Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Great Administration |
Van Wyck Brooks The Flowering of New England |
1938 | J. P. Marquand The Late George Apley |
Thornton Wilder Our Town |
Marya Zaturenska Cold Morning Sky |
Odell Shepard Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott Marquis James Andrew Jackson |
Paul H. Buck Road to Reunion |
1939 | Marjorie K. Rawlings The Yearling |
Robert Sherwood Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
John Gould Fletcher Selected Poems |
Carl Van Doren Benjamin Franklin |
Frank L. Mott A History of American Magazines |
1940 | John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath |
William Saroyan The Time of Your Life (Award declined) |
Mark Van Doren Collected Poems |
Ray Stannard Baker Woodrow Wilson (Vols. 7 and 8) |
Carl Sandburg Abraham Lincoln: The War Years |
1941 | No Award | Robert Sherwood There Shall Be No Night |
Leonard Bacon Sunderland Capture |
Ola Elizabeth Winslow Jonathan Edwards |
Marcus Lee Hansen The Atlantic Migration |
1942 | Ellen Galsgow In This Our Life |
No Award | William Rose Benet The Dust Which Is God |
Forrest Wilson Crusader in Crinoline (Harriet Beecher Stowe) |
Margaret Leech Reveille in Washington |
1943 | Upton Sinclair Dragon's Teeth |
Thornton Wilder The Skin of Our Teeth |
Robert Frost A Witness Tree |
Samuel Eliot Morison Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean Sea |
Esther Forbes Paul Revere and the World He Lived In |
1944 | Martin Flavin Journey in the Dark |
No Award Special award to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for Oklahoma! |
Stephen Vincent Benet Western Star |
Carleton Mabee The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse |
Merle Curti The Growth of American Thought |
1945 | John Hersey A Bell for Adano |
Mary Chase Harvey |
Karl Shapiro V-Letter And Other Poems |
Russel B. Nye George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel |
Stephen Bonsal Unfinished Business |
1946 | No Award | Russel Crouse Howard Lindsay State of the Union |
No Award | Linnie Marsh Wolfe Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Nuir |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Age of Jackson |
1947 | Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men |
No Award | Robert Lowell Lord Weary's Castle |
William Allen White Autobiography |
James Phinney Baxter Scientists Against Time |
1948 | James A. Michener Tales of the South Pacific |
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire |
W. H. Auden The Age of Anxiety |
Margaret Clapp Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow |
Bernard De Voto Across the Wide Missouri |
1949 | James Gould Cozzens Guard of Honor |
Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman |
Peter Viereck Terror and Decorum |
Robert E. Sherwood Roosevelt and Hopkins |
Roy f. Nichols The Disruption of American Democracy |
1950 | A. B. Guthrie The Way West |
Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II Joshua Logan South Pacific |
Gwendolyn Brooks Annie Adams |
Samuel Glagg Bemis John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy |
O. W. Larkin Art and Life in America |
1951 | Conrad Richter The Town |
No Award | Carl Sandburg Complete Poems |
Margaret Louise Coit John C. Calhoun: American Portrait |
R. Carlyle Buley The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period, 1815-1840 |
1952 | Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny |
Joseph Kramm The Shrike |
Marianne Moore Collected Poems |
Merlo J. Pusey Charles Evans Hughes |
Oscar Handlin The Uprooted |
1953 | Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea |
William Inge Picnic |
Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems 1917-1952 |
David J. Mays Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 |
George Dangerfield The Era of Good Feelings |
1954 | No Award | John Patrick The Teahouse of the August Moon |
Theodore Roethke The Waking |
Charles A. Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis [Autobiography] |
Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox |
1955 | William Faulkner A Fable |
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
Wallace Stevens Collected Poems |
William S. White The Taft Story |
Paul Horgan Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History |
1956 | MacKinlay Kantor Andersonville |
Albert Hackett Frances Goodrich The Diary of Anne Frank |
Elizabeth Bishop Poems--North & South |
Talbot Faulkner Hamlin Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
Richrad Hofstadter Age of Reform |
1957 | No Award | Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey Into Night |
Richard Wilbur Things of This World |
John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage |
George F. Kennan Russia Leaves the War |
1958 | James Agee A Death in the Family |
Ketti Frings Look Homeward, Angel |
Robert Penn Warren Promises: Poems 1954-1956 |
Douglas S. Freeman George Washington (Vol. 5 and 6) John A. Carroll Mary W. Ashworth George Washington (Vol. 7) |
Bray Hammond Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War |
1959 | Robert Lewis Taylor The Travels of Jamie McPheeters |
Archibald MacLeish J. B. |
Stanley Kunitz Selected Poems |
Arthur Walworth Woodrow Wilson (2 vols.) |
Leonard D. White The Republican Era: 1869-1901 |
1960 | Allen Drury Advise and Consent |
Jerome Weidman George Abbott Fiorello! |
W. D. Snodgrass Heart's Needle |
Samuel Eliot Morison John Paul Jones |
Margaret Leech In the Days of McKinley Special award to Garrett Mattingly for The Armada |
1961 | Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird |
Tad Mosel All the Way Home |
Phyllis McGinley Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades |
David Donald Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War |
Herbert Feis Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference Special award to the American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War |
1962 | Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness |
Frank Loesser Abe Burrows How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying |
Alan Dogan Poems |
No Award | Lawrence Gipson The Truimphant Empire: Thunder Clouds Gather in the West |
1963 | William Faulkner The Reivers |
No Award | William Carlos Williams Pictures from Brueghel |
Leon Edel Henry James (Vol. 2 and 3) |
Constance M. Green Washington, Village and Capital |
1964 | No Award | No Award | Louis Simpson At the End of the Open Road |
Walter Jackson Bate John Keats |
Sumner Chilton Powell Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town |
1965 | Shirley Ann Grau The Keepers of the House |
Frank D.Gilroy The Subject Was Roses |
John Berryman 77 Dream Songs |
Ernest Samuels Henry Adams (3 vols.) |
Irwin Unger The Greenback Era |
1966 | Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories |
No Award | Richard Eberhart Selected Poems |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A Thousand Days |
Perry Miller The Life and the Mind in America |
1967 | Bernard Malamud The Fixer |
Edward Albee A Delicate Balance |
Anne Sexton Live or Die |
Justin Kaplan Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
William H. Goetzmann Exploration and Empire |
1968 | William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner |
No Award | Anthony Hecht The Hard Hours |
George Frost Kennan Memoirs |
Bernard Bailyn The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
1969 | Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn |
Howard O. Sackler The Great White Hope |
George Oppen Of Being Numerous |
Benjamin L. Reid The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends |
Leonard W. Levy Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination |
1970 | Jean Stafford The Collected Stories |
Charles Gordone No Place to Be Somebody |
Richard Howard Untitled Subjects: Poems |
T. Harry Williams Huey Long |
Dean Acheson Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department |
1971 | No Award | Paul Zindel The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the- Moon Marigolds |
W. S. Merwin The Carrier of Ladders |
Lawrance R. Thompson Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 |
James M. Burns Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom |
1972 | Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose |
No Award | James A. Wright Collected Poems |
Joseph P. Lash Eleanor and Franklin: the Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers |
Carl N. Degler Niether Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States |
1973 | Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter |
Jason Miller That Championship Season |
Maxine Kumin Up Country: Poems of New England |
W. A. Swanberg Luce and His Empire |
Michael G.Kammen People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization |
1974 | No Award | No Award | Robert Lowell The Dolphin |
Louis Shaeffer O'Neill: Son and Artist |
Daniel J. Boorstin The Americans: The Democratic Experience |
1975 | Michael Shaara The Killer Angels |
Edward Albee Seascape |
Gary Snyder Turtle Island |
Robert A. Caro The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York |
Dumas Malone Jefferson and His Time |
1976 | Saul Bellow Humboldt's Gift |
James Kirkwood Nicholas Dante Edward Kleban Michael Bennett A Chorus Line |
John Ashbery Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
Richard W. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography |
Paul Horgan Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times |
1977 | No Award | Michael Cristofer The Shadow Box |
James Merrill Divine Comedies |
John E. Mack A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence |
David M. Potter The Impending Crisis, 1848-1961 (Completed and Edited by Don E. Fehrenbacker) |
1978 | James A. McPherson Elbow Room: Stories |
D. L. Coburn The Gin Game |
Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov |
Walter J. Bate Samuel Johnson |
Alfred D. Chandler The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business |
1979 | John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever |
Sam Shepard Buried Child |
Robert Penn Warren Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978 |
Leonard Baker Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baech and the Berlin Jews |
Don E. Fehrenbacher The Dred Scott Case, Its Significance in American Law and Politics |
1980 | Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song |
Lanford Wilson Talley's Folly |
Donald Justice Selected Poems |
Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
Leon F. Litwack Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery |
1981 | John K. Toole A Confederacy of Dunces |
Beth Henley Crimes of the Heart |
James Schuyler The Morning of the Poem |
Robert K. Massie Peter the Great, His Life and World |
Lawrence A. Cremin American Education, The National Experience: 1783-1876 |
1982 | John Updike Rabbit is Rich |
Charles Fuller A Soldier's Play |
Sylvia Plath The Collected Poems |
William S. McFeely Grant: A Biography |
Mary B. M. Chesnut Mary Chesnut's Civil War (Edited by C. Vann Woodward) |
1983 | Alice Walker The Color Purple |
Marsha Norman 'Night Mother |
Galway Kinnell Selected Poems |
Russell Baker Growing Up [Autobiography] |
Rhys Isaac The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 |
1984 | William Kennedy Ironweed |
David Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross |
Mary Oliver American Primitive |
Louis R. Harlan Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 |
No Award | 1985 | Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs |
Stephen Sondheim James Lapine Sunday in the Park With George |
Carloyn Kizer Yin New Poems |
Kenneth Silverman The Life and Times of Cotton Mather |
Thomas K. McCraw Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn |
1986 | Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove |
No Award | Henry Taylor The Flying Change |
Elizabeth Frank Louise Bogan : A Portrait |
Walter A. McDougall The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age |
1987 | Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis |
August Wilson Fences |
Rita Dove Thomas & Beulah |
David Garrow Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
Bernard Bailyn Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution |
1988 | Toni Morrison Beloved |
Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy |
William Meredith Partial Accounts: New & Selected Poems |
David J. Donald Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe |
Robert V. Bruce The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 |
1989 | Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons |
Wendy Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles |
Richard Wilbur New & Collected Poems |
Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde |
James M. McPherson Battle Cry of freedom: The Civil War Era Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: American in the King Years, 1954-63 |
1990 | Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
August Wilson The Piano Lesson |
Charles Simic The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems |
Sebastian De Grazia Machiavelli in Hell |
Stanley Karnow In Our Image |
1991 | John Updike Rabbit At Rest |
Neil Simon Lost in Yonkers |
Mona Van Duyn Near Changes: Poems |
Steven W. Naifeh Jackson Pollock: An American Genius |
Laurel Ulrich A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 |
1992 | Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres |
Robert Schenkkan The Kentucky Cycle |
James Tate Selected Poems |
Lewis B. Puller Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr., |
Mark E. Neely The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties |
1993 | Robert Butler A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain |
Tony Kushner Angels in America |
Louise Gluck The Wild Iris |
David G. McCullough Truman |
Gordon S. Wood The Radicalism of the American Revolution |
1994 | Annie Proulx The Shipping News |
Edward Albee Three Tall Women |
Yusef Komunyakaa Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems |
David L. Lewis DuBois--Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
No Award | 1995 | Carol Shields The Stone Diaries |
Horton Foote The Young Man From Atlanta |
Philip Levine The Simple Truth: Poems |
Joan D. Hedrick Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life |
Doris Kearns Goodwin No Ordinary Line: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II |
1996 | Richard Ford Independence Day |
Johnathan Larson Rent |
Jorie Graham The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994 |
Jack Miles God: A Biography |
Alan Taylor William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic |
1997 | Steven Millhauser
Martin Dressler: The Tale of An American Dreamer |
No Award | Lisel Mueller Alive Together: New and Selected Poems |
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes: A Memoir [Autobiography] |
Jack N. Rakove Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution |
1998 | Philip Roth American Pastoral |
Paula Vogel How I Learned to Drive |
Charles Wright Black Zodiac |
Katharine Graham Personal History |
Edward J. Larson Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and American's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion |
1999 | Michael Cummingham The Hours |
Margaret Edson Wit |
Mark Strand Blizzard of One |
A. Scott Berg Lindberg |
Edwin G. Burrows Mike Wallace Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 |
2000 | Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies |
Donald Margulies Dinner With Friends |
C. K. Williams Repair |
Stacy Schiff Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
David Kennedy Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-45 |