2019 - Richard Powers for The Overstory (1957-)
2018 - Andrew Sean Greer for Less (1970-)
2018 - Andrew Sean Greer for Less (1970-)
2017 - Colson Whitehead for The Underground Railroad (1969-)
2016 - Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Sympathizer (1971-)
2015 - Anthony Doerr for All the Light We Cannot See (1973-)
2014 - Donna Tartt for The Goldfinch (1963-)
2013 - Adam Johnson for The Orphan Master's Son (1967-)
2011 - Jennifer Egan for A Visit From the Goon Squad (1962-)
2010 - Paul Harding for Tinkers (1967-)
2009 - Elizabeth Strout for Olive Kitteridge (1956-)
2008 - Junot Díaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (1968-)
2007 - Cormac McCarthy for The Road (1933-)
2006 - Geraldine Brooks for March (1955-)
2005 - Marilynne Robinson for Gilead (1947-)
2004 - Edward P. Jones for The Known World (1951-)
2003 - Jeffrey Eugenides for Middlesex (1960-)
2002 - Richard Russo for Empire Falls (1949-)
2001 - Michael Chabon for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (1963-)
2000 - Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies (1967-)
1999 - Michael Cunningham for The Hours (1952-)
1998 - Philip Roth for American Pastorial (1933-2018)
1997 - Steven Millhauser for Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1943-)
1996 - Richard Ford for Independence Day (1944-)
1995 - Carol Shields for The Stone Diaries (1935-2003)
1994 - E. Anne Proulx for The Shipping News (1935-)
1993 - Robert Olen Butler for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1945-)
1992 - Jane Smiley for A Thousand Acres (1949-)
1991 - John Updike for Rabbit at Rest (1932-2009)
1990 - Oscar Hijuelos for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1951-2013)
1989 - Anne Tyler for Breathing Lessons (1941-)
1988 - Toni Morrison for Beloved (1931-2019)
1987 - Peter Taylor for A Summons to Memphis (1917-1994)
1986 - Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove (1936-)
1985 - Alison Lurie for Foreign Affairs (1926-)
1984 - William Kennedy for Ironweed (1928-)
1983 - Alice Walker for The Color Purple (1944-)
1982 - John Updike for Rabbit is Rich (1932-2009)
1981 - John Kennedy Toole for A Confederacy of Dunces (1937-1969)
1980 - Norman Mailer for The Executioner’s Song (1923-2007)
1979 - John Cheever for The Stories of John Cheever (1912-1982)
1978 - James Alan McPherson for Elbow Room (1943-2016)
1976 - Saul Bellow for Humboldt’s Gift (1915-2005)
1975 - Michael Shaara for The Killer Angels (1928-1988)
1973 - Eudora Welty for The Optimist’s Daughter (1909-2001)
1972 - Wallace Stegner for Angle of Repose (1909-1993)
1970 - Jean Stafford for Collected Stories (1915-1979)
1969 - N. Scott Momaday for House Made of Dawn (1934-)
1968 - William Styron for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1925-2006)
1967 - Bernard Malamud for The Fixer (1914-1986)
1966 - Katherine Anne Porter for Collected Stories (1890-1980)
1965 - Shirley Ann Grau for The Keepers of the House (1929-)
1963 - William Faulkner for The Reivers (1897-1962)
1962 - Edwin O’Connor for The Edge of Sadness (1918-1968)
1961 - Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird (1926-2016)
1960 - Allen Drury for Advise and Consent (1918-1998)
1959 - Robert Lewis Taylor for The Travels of Jamie McPeters (1912-1998)
1958 - James Agee for A Death in the Family (1909-1955)
1956 - MacKinlay Kantor for Andersonville (1904-1977)
1955 - William Faulkner for A Fable (1897-1962)
1953 - Ernest Hemingway for The Old Man and the Sea (1899-1961)
1952 - Herman Wouk for The Caine Mutiny (1915-2019)
1951 - Conrad Richter for The Town (1890-1968)
1950 - A.B. Guthrie, Jr. for The Way West (1901-1991)
1949 - James Gould Cozzens for Guard of Honor (1903-1978)
1948 - James A. Michener for Tales of the South Pacific (1907-1997)
1947 - Robert Penn Warren for All the King’s Men (1905-1989)
1945 - John Hersey for A Bell for Adano (1914-1993)
1944 - Martin Flavin for Journey in the Dark (1883-1967)
1943 - Upton Sinclair for Dragon’s Teeth (1878-1968)
1942 - Ellen Glasgow for In this Our Life (1874-1945)
1940 - John Steinbeck for The Grapes of Wrath (1902-1968)
1939 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for The Yearling (1896-1953)
1938 - John Phillips Marquand for The Late George Apley (1893-1960)
1937 - Margaret Mitchell for Gone with the Wind (1900-1949)
1936 - Harold L. Davis for Honey in the Horn (1894-1960)
1935 - Josephine Winslow Johnson for Now in November (1910-1990)
1934 - Caroline Miller for Lamb in His Bosom (1903-1992)
1933 - T.S. Stribling for The Store (1881-1965)
1932 - Pearl S. Buck for The Good Earth (1892-1973)
1931 - Margaret Ayer Barnes for Years of Grace (1886-1967)
1930 - Oliver LaFarge for Laughing Boy (1901-1963)
1929 - Julia Peterkin for Scarlet Sister Mary (1880-1961)
1928 - Thornton Wilder for The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1897-1975)
1927 - Louis Bromfield for Early Autumn (1896-1956)
1926 - Sinclair Lewis for Arrowsmith (1885-1951)
1925 - Edna Ferber for So Big (1885-1968)
1924 - Margaret Wilson for The Able McLaughlins (1882-1973)
1923 - Willa Cather for One of Ours (1873-1947)
1922 - Booth Tarkington for Alice Adams (1869-1946)
1921 - Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence (1862-1937)
1919 - Booth Tarkington for The Magnificent Ambersons (1869-1946)
1918 - Ernest Poole for His Family (1880-1950)
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