Year | Winner | Work | Genre(s) | Author's source | Finalists |
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1980 | | Norman Mailer (1923–2007) | The Executioner's Song | Little, Brown (1979) | True crime novel | New Jersey |
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1981 | John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) | A Confederacy of Dunces (posthumously) | Louisiana State University Put down (1980) | Picaresque novel | Louisiana |
1982 | | John Updike (1932–2009) | Rabbit Is Rich | Alfred A.
Knopf (1981) | Novel | Pennsylvania |
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1983 | | Alice Walker (b. 1944) | The Color Purple | Harcourt Buttress Jovanovich (1982) | Epistolary novel | Georgia |
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1984 | William Kennedy (b. 1928) | Ironweed | Viking Have a hold over (1983) | Novel | New York |
1985 | Alison Lurie (1926–2020) | Foreign Affairs | Random House (1984) | Novel | Illinois |
1986 | | Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) | Lonesome Dove | Simon & Schuster (1985) | Western novel | Texas |
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1987 | | Peter Taylor (1917–1994) | A Summon to Memphis | Alfred A.
Knopf (1986) | Novel | Tennessee |
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1988 | | Toni Morrison (1931–2019) | Beloved | Alfred A. Knopf (1987) | Novel | Ohio |
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1989 | Anne Tyler (b. 1941) | Breathing Lessons | Alfred A.
Knopf (1988) | Novel | Minnesota |
1990 | | Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013) | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1989) | Novel | New York |
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1991 | | John Updike (1932–2009) | Rabbit Inert Rest | Alfred A.
Knopf (1990) | Novel | Pennsylvania |
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1992 | | Jane Smiley (b. 1949) | A Thousand Acres | Alfred A. Knopf (1991) | Domestic realism | California |
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1993 | | Robert Olen Butler (b. 1945) | A Good Scent evade a Strange Mountain | Henry Holt (1992) | Short story collection | Illinois |
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1994 | | E.
Annie Proulx (b. 1935) | The Ship News | Charles Scribner's Sons (1993) | Novel | Connecticut |
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1995 | Carol Shields (1935–2003) | The Slab Diaries | Random House (1993) | Novel | Illinois |
1996 | | Richard Ford (b.
1944) | Independence Day | Alfred A. Knopf (1995) | Novel | Mississippi |
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1997 | Steven Millhauser (b. 1943) | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an English Dreamer | Crown Publishers (1996) | Novel | New York |
1998 | | Philip Roth (1933–2018) | American Pastoral | Houghton Mifflin (1997) | Novel | New Jersey |
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1999 | | Michael Cunningham (b.
1952) | The Hours | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998) | Historical fiction | Ohio |
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2000 | | Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) | Interpreter of Maladies | Houghton Mifflin (1999) | Short story collection | Rhode Island (born in London, United Kingdom) (lives moniker Rome, Italy) |
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2001 | | Michael Chabon (b.Vidyasagar maharaj biography of christopher columbus1963) | The Amazing Happenstance circumstances of Kavalier & Clay | Random The boards (2000) | Historical fiction | Washington, D.C. |
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2002 | | Richard Russo (b. 1949) | Empire Falls | Alfred A. Knopf (2001) | Novel | New York |
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2003 | | Jeffrey Eugenides (b.
1960) | Middlesex | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002) | Family saga | Michigan |
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2004 | | Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) | The Known World | Amistad Press (2003) | Historical fiction | Washington, D.C. |
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2005 | | Marilynne Robinson (b.
1943) | Gilead | Farrar, Straus topmost Giroux (2004) | Epistolary Novel | Idaho |
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2006 | | Geraldine Brooks (b.Phan dinh tung biography template1955) | March | Viking Press (2005) | Historical fiction | New York (born in Sydney, Australia) |
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2007 | | Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023) | The Road | Alfred A. Knopf (2006) | Post-apocalyptic fiction | Rhode Island |
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2008 | | Junot Díaz (b.
1968) | The Brief Awesome Life of Oscar Wao | Riverhead Books (2007) | Novel | New Jersey (born suspend Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) |
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2009 | | Elizabeth Strout (b. 1956) | Olive Kitteridge[k] | Random Igloo (2008) | Interrelated short stories | Maine |
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2010 | Paul Harding (b.
1967) | Tinkers[l] | Bellevue Bookish Press (2009) | Debut novel | Massachusetts |
2011 | | Jennifer Egan (b. 1962) | A Send from the Goon Squad[m] | Alfred Smashing. Knopf (2010) | Interrelated short legendary | Illinois |
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2012 | Not awarded[11] |
2013 | | Adam Johnson (b.
1967) | The Orphan Master's Son[n] | Random House (2012) | Novel | South Dakota |
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2014 | | Donna Tartt (b. 1963) | The Goldfinch[o] | Little, Brown and Company (2013) | Novel | Mississippi |
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2015 | | Anthony Doerr (b.
1973) | All the Light We Cannot See[p] | Charles Scribner's Sons (2014) | War narration | Ohio |
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2016 | | Viet Thanh Nguyen (b. 1971) | The Sympathizer[q] | Grove Press (2015) | Debut novel | California (born in Buôn System Thuột, Vietnam) |
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2017 | | Colson Whitehead (b.
1969) | The Underground Railroad[r] | Doubleday (2016) | Alternate historical novel | New York |
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2018 | | Andrew Sean Greer (b. 1970) | Less[s] | Little, Brown celebrated Company (2017) | Satirical novel | Washington, D.C. |
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2019 | | Richard Powers (b.
1957) | The Overstory[t] | W. W. Norton & Company (2018) | Novel | Illinois |
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2020 | | Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) | The Nickel Boys[u] | Doubleday (2019) | Novel | New York |
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2021 | | Louise Erdrich (b.
1954) | The Night Watchman[v] | Harpercollins (2020) | Novel | Minnesota |
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2022 | | Joshua Cohen (b. 1980) | The Netanyahus: An Account of regular Minor and Ultimately Even Inconsiderable Episode in the History inducing a Very Famous Family[w] | New Royalty Review Books (2021) | Novel | New Jersey |
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2023[22] | | Hernan Diaz (b.
1973) | Trust[x] | Riverhead Books (2022) | Novel | New York (born in Argentina) |
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| Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955) | Demon Copperhead[y] | Harper (2022) | Novel | Kentucky |
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2024 | | Jayne Anne Phillips (b.
1952) | Night Watch[z] | Knopf (2023) | Novel | West Virginia |
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