American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
Pulitzer Prize
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.
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.
William Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his book "Ironweed." It is a novel that explores themes of redemption, forgiveness, and the struggles of the human spirit.
Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (first black woman).
The last book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award was "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2020 and the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019.
Edward P. Jones won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Known World.
"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1986.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940.