Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
2013 |
|
James McBride |
The Good Lord Bird |
2012 |
|
Louise Erdrich |
The Round House |
2011 |
|
Jesmyn Ward |
Salvage the Bones |
2010 |
|
Jaimy Gordon |
Lord of Misrule |
2009 |
|
Colum McCann |
Let the Great World Spin |
2008 |
|
Peter Matthiessen |
Shadow Country |
2007 |
|
Denis Johnson |
Tree of Smoke |
2006 |
|
Richard Powers |
The Echo Maker |
2005 |
|
William T. Vollmann |
Europe Central |
2004 |
|
Lily Tuck |
The News from Paraguay |
2003 |
|
Shirley Hazzard |
The Great Fire |
2002 |
|
Julia Glass |
Three Junes |
2001 |
|
Jonathan Franzen |
The Corrections |
2000 |
|
Susan Sontag |
In America |
1999 |
|
Ha Jin |
Waiting: A Novel |
1998 |
|
Alice McDermott |
Charming Billy |
1997 |
|
Charles Frazier |
Cold Mountain |
1996 |
|
Andrea Barrett |
Ship Fever |
1995 |
|
Philip Roth |
Sabbath's Theater |
1994 |
|
William Gaddis |
A Frolic of His Own |
1993 |
|
E. Annie Proulx |
The Shipping News |
1992 |
|
Cormac McCarthy |
All the Pretty Horses |
1991 |
|
Norman Rush |
Mating |
1990 |
|
Charles R. Johnson |
Middle Passage |
1989 |
|
John Casey |
Spartina |
1988 |
|
Pete Dexter |
Paris Trout |
1987 |
|
Larry Heinemann |
Paco's Story |
1986 |
|
E. L. Doctorow |
World's Fair |
1985 |
|
Don DeLillo |
White Noise |
1984 |
|
Ellen Gilchrist |
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories |
1979 |
|
Tim O'Brien |
Going After Cacciato |
1978 |
|
Mary Lee Settle |
Blood Tie |
1977 |
|
Wallace Stegner |
The Spectator Bird |
1976 |
|
William Gaddis |
J R |
1975 |
|
Robert Stone |
Dog Soldiers |
1975 |
|
Thomas Williams |
The Hair of Harold Roux |
1974 |
|
Thomas Pynchon |
Gravity's Rainbow |
1974 |
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories |
1973 |
|
John Barth |
Chimera |
1973 |
|
John Edward Williams |
Augustus |
1972 |
|
Flannery O'Connor |
The Complete Stories |
1971 |
|
Saul Bellow |
Mr. Sammler's Planet |
1970 |
|
Joyce Carol Oates |
Them |
1969 |
|
Jerzy Kosi?ski |
Steps |
1968 |
|
Thornton Wilder |
The Eighth Day |
1967 |
|
Bernard Malamud |
The Fixer |
1966 |
|
Katherine Anne Porter |
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
1965 |
|
Saul Bellow |
Herzog |
1964 |
|
John Updike |
The Centaur |
1963 |
|
J. F. Powers |
Morte D'Urban |
1962 |
|
Walker Percy |
The Moviegoer |
1961 |
|
Conrad Richter |
The Waters of Kronos |
1960 |
|
Philip Roth |
Goodbye, Columbus |
1959 |
|
Bernard Malamud |
The Magic Barrel |
1958 |
|
John Cheever |
The Wapshot Chronicle |
1957 |
|
Wright Morris |
The Field of Vision |
1956 |
|
John O'Hara |
Ten North Frederick |
1955 |
|
William Faulkner |
A Fable |
1954 |
|
Saul Bellow |
The Adventures of Augie March |
1953 |
|
Ralph Ellison |
Invisible Man |
1952 |
|
James Jones |
From Here to Eternity |
1951 |
|
William Faulkner |
The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
1950 |
|
Nelson Algren |
The Man with the Golden Arm |
1940 |
|
Richard Llewellyn |
How Green Was My Valley |
1939 |
|
John Steinbeck |
The Grapes of Wrath |
1938 |
|
Daphne du Maurier |
Rebecca |
1937 |
|
A. J. Cronin |
The Citadel |