What book or author won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1989?

Answer 1

Criteria for Entry:

Books first published in the United States during [the previous year]. All entries must be made available for purchase by the general public in either hardcover or bound paperback book form. In the Fiction, Biography and General Nonfiction categories, authors must be United States citizens. In the History category, the author may be of any nationality but the subject of the book must be U.S. history. In the Poetry category, the award is for original verse by an American author.

Criteria for Winning:

For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Answer 2

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 submitted for consideration.

Novel

1917 (No Award)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1920 (No Award)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)

1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1941 (No Award)

1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)

1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)

1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)

1946 (No Award)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

Fiction

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)

1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1954 (No Award)

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)

1957 (No Award)

1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)

1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1964 (No Award)

1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)

1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)

1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)

1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)

1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)

1971 (No Award)

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1974 (No Award)

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

1977 (No Award)

1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)

Answer 3

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989 was awarded to Anne Tyler for her novel "Breathing Lessons".

Answer 4

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1989.