Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies,(Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin). Lahiri was also the recipient of an O.Henry Prize and was included in the anthology Best of Short Fiction for 1999 for the story "A Temporary Matter."
Sagan authored more than 20 books about space and the universe. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work.
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).
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Cormac McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Road.
No one. The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917.
Two 1940s-era Pulitzer Prize-winning books became major motion pictures. The first was John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize; the second was James Michener's novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which won the 1948 Pulitzer.
Author Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel, Beloved.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940.
Ellen Glasgow won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel, In This Our Life.
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.