The first Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded in 1918 under the category name "Novel." The Pulitzer Prize Board changed "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948, and allowed short story collections to be...
Four books won Pulitzer Prizes in 1935 in the categories of Novel (Fiction), History, Biography or Autobiography, and Poetry. Novel: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson History: The Colonial...
2007 Pulitzer PrizesBooks Fiction: The Road by Cormac McCarthy History: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff Biography...
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.
Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Geisel) didn't win a regular Pulitzer Prize, but a Special Citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board for lifetime achievement in 1984. Rather than singling out one book for...