퓰리처상은 미국에서 활동한 헝가리 출신의 언론인 조셉 퓰리처(Joseph Pulitzer, 1847-1911)의 유언에 따라 1917년 제정된 상이다. 언론, 문학, 음악 등 3개 분야 총 21개의 종목의 상이 수여되고 있는데, 언론분야 뿐 아니라 문학, 음악분야도 세계적 권위를 인정받고 있다.
미국의 대표적 문학상 중 하나로 자리매김한 퓰리처 문학상은 이전년도에 발행된 책을 대상으로 수상작이 선정, 매년 5월에 발표된다. 조셉 퓰리처로부터 기부금을 받아 언론대학원을 세워진 컬럼비아대학에서 이를 주관하고 있으며 1918년 이래 매년 수상을 하고 있지만 수상작이 나오지 않는 해도 몇 해 존재한다.
| 수상년도 | 수상 작품명 | 저자 |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | His Family | Ernest Poole |
| 1919 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |
| 1920 | (No Award) | |
| 1921 | The Age Of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| 1922 | Alice Adams | Booth Tarkington |
| 1923 | One of Ours | Willa Cather |
| 1924 | The Able McLaughlins | Margaret Wilson |
| 1925 | So Big | Edna Ferber |
| 1926 | Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| 1927 | Early Autumn | Louis Bromfield |
| 1928 | Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary | Julia M. Peterkin |
| 1930 | Laughing Boy | Oliver LA Farge |
| 1931 | Years of Grace | Margaret Ayer Barnes |
| 1932 | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| 1933 | The Store | T. S. Stribling |
| 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom | Caroline Miller |
| 1935 | Now in November | Josephine W. Johnson |
| 1936 | Honey in the Horn | Harold L. Davis |
| 1937 | Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 1938 | The Late George Apley | John P. Marquand |
| 1939 | The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| 1940 | The Grapes Of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 1941 | (No Award) | |
| 1942 | In This Our Life | Ellen Glasgow |
| 1943 | Dragon's Teeth | Upton Sinclair |
| 1944 | Journey in the Dark | Martin Flavin |
| 1945 | A Bell for Adano | John Hersey |
| 1946 | (No Award) | {C} {C} |
| 1947 | All The King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific | James A. Michener |
| 1949 | Guard of Honor | James Gould Cozzens |
| 1950 | The Way West | A.B. Guthrie, Jr. |
| 1951 | The Town | Conrad Richter |
| 1952 | The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk |
| 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1954 | (No Award) | |
| 1955 | A Fable | William Faulkner |
| 1956 | Andersonville | MacKinlay Kantor |
| 1957 | (No Award) | |
| 1958 | A Death in the Family | James Agee |
| 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie | Robert Lewis Taylor |
| 1960 | Advise and Consent | Allen Drury |
| 1961 | To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 1962 | The Edge of Sadness | Edwin O'Connor |
| 1963 | The Reivers | William Faulkner |
| 1964 | (No Award) | {C} {C} |
| 1965 | The Keepers of the House | Shirley Ann Grau |
| 1966 | Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1967 | The Fixer | Bernard Malamud |
| 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron |
| 1969 | House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday |
| 1970 | Collected Stories of Jean Stafford | Jean Stafford |
| 1971 | (No Award) | {C} {C} |
| 1972 | Angle Of Repose | Wallace Earle Stegner |
| 1973 | The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| 1974 | (No Award) | |
| 1975 | The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
| 1976 | Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow |
| 1977 | (No Award) | {C} {C} |
| 1978 | Elbow Room | James Alan McPherson |
| 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever | John Cheever |
| 1980 | The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer |
| 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| 1982 | Rabbit is Rich | John Updike |
| 1983 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| 1984 | Ironweed | William J. Kennedy |
| 1985 | Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie |
| 1986 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry |
| 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | Peter Hillsman Taylor |
| 1988 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 1989 | Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler |
| 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play | Oscar Hijuelos |
| 1991 | Rabbit at Rest | John Updike |
| 1992 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories | Robert Olen Butler |
| 1994 | The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx |
| 1995 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
| 1996 | Independence Day | Richard Ford |
| 1997 | Martin Dressler | Steven Millhauser |
| 1998 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| 1999 | The Hours | Michael Cunningham |
| 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &Clay | Michael Chabon |
| 2002 | Empire Falls | Richard Russo |
| 2003 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 2004 | The Known World | Edward P. Jones |
| 2005 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| 2006 | March | Geraldine Brooks |
| 2007 | The Road | Corm ac McCarthy |
| 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz |
| 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | Elizaveth Strout |
| 2010 | Tinkers | Paul Harding |
| 2011 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan |
| 2013 | The Orphan Master's Son | Adam Johnson |
| 2014 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| 2015 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |