Pulitzer Prize
To submit a book for consideration for the Pulitzer Prize, the publisher of the book must submit it to the Pulitzer Prize Board during the entry period. The entry must meet the specific criteria outlined by the Pulitzer Prize Board for the relevant category. Books published in the previous calendar year are eligible for submission.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
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.
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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 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.
Gwendolyn Brooks was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection, Annie Allen.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940.
Carl Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book The Dragons of Eden in 1978.
The novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.