The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the "Novel" category to "Fiction" in 1948.
The winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books).
Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Age of Innocence" in 1921.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won a Pulitzer Prize for best Novel in 1940.
Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Road.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won a Pulitzer Prize for best Novel in 1940.
Martin Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Journey in the Dark. The Pulitzer Prize Board changed the category from "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948.
Herman Wouk won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Caine Mutiny.(Doubleday)
Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940.
Sinclair Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel "Arrowsmith" in 1926. Lewis declined the prize due to his dissatisfaction with the judging process.