LibGuides: Women Writers: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Fiction: Home

SSPL holdings:
1988-present

The Night Watchman: A Novel
by Louise Erdrich
Year Won: 2021 Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity.
Call Number: Fict Erd
ISBN: 9780062671189
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
Year Won: 2014 The coming-of-age story of Theo Decker who loses his mother while he manages to survive.
Call Number: *print copy available in large print, LT Fict Tar *
ISBN: 9780316055444
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
Year Won: 2011 Woven together are the lives of Sasha and record exec Bennie along with others and the music.
Call Number: Fict Ega
ISBN: 9780307592835
Publication Date: 2010-06-08
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Year Won: 2009 Olive hates changes in the world but does not always acknowledge them in those closest to her.
Call Number: Fict Str
ISBN: 9780812971835
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
Year Won: 2005 The telling of a family's story from the 1900s back to the Civil War and their struggles fought.
Call Number: Fict Rob
ISBN: 0374153892
Publication Date: 2004-11-19
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Year Won: 2000 A collection of short stories set in India and the U.S. full of experiences that are relatable to all.
Call Number: Fict Lah Pb
ISBN: 9780618101368
Publication Date: 2000-05-22
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The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
Year Won: 1995 The life story of Daisy Stone Goodwill and her awakening to events from her own existence.
Call Number: Fict Shi
ISBN: 9780143105503
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
Year Won: 1994 Quoyle moves to Newfoundland, where he rebuilds both his life and his understanding of love.
Call Number: Fict Pro
ISBN: 9780684857916
Publication Date: 1999-05-10
A Thousand Acres: A Novel
by Jane Smiley
Year Won: 1992 When Caroline denies her father’s gift of land, it sets off an angry string of family incidents.
Call Number: Fict Smi
ISBN: 1400033837
Publication Date: 2003-12-02
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Breathing Lessons: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
Year Won: 1989 Ira and Maggie…have a chance to review their lives and reaffirm [their love and] marriage.
Call Number: Fict Tyl
ISBN: 9780345485571
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Year Won: 1988 Sethe is tormented by memories of her past as a slave and the loss of her unnamed child.
Call Number: Fict Mor
ISBN: 9780307264886
Publication Date: 2006-10-17
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SSPL holdings:
1918-1987

The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Year Won: 1983 Explores the harrowing existence of black women living in the American South in the '30s.
Call Number: Fict Wal
ISBN: 0151191549
Publication Date: 1992-05-22
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The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty
Year Won: 1973 Laurel goes home to New Orleans to care for her father and ends up revisiting her past.
Call Number: Fict Wel
ISBN: 067972883X
Publication Date: 1990-08-11
The Collected Stories
by Katherine Anne Porter
Year Won: 1966 *** The original work was The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter; the version shown has the addition of “Essays, Reviews, & Other Writings”
Call Number: Fict Por
ISBN: 0156188767
Publication Date: 1979-09-19
The Keepers of the House: A Novel
by Shirley Ann Grau
Year Won: 1965 A long-kept family secret arises, leading to communal punishment for Abigail Howland.
Call Number: Fict Gra
ISBN: 9781400030743
Publication Date: 2003-11-11
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Year Won: 1961 Scout grows up in Jim Crow Alabama and looks on as her lawyer father defends a black man.
Call Number: Fict Lee
ISBN: 9780062420701
Publication Date: 2015-03-03
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The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Year Won: 1939 A fawn touches the lives of Jody and his family, ultimately helping them through hardship.
Call Number: J Fict Raw
* J Fict titles are on the ground floor *
ISBN: 9780689846236
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Year Won: 1937 After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.
Call Number: Fict Mit
ISBN: 9781451635621
Publication Date: 2011-05-03
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The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
Year Won: 1932 Wang Lung is rewarded for his humane kindness when drought and riots hang over China.
Call Number: Fict Buc
ISBN: 0743272935
Publication Date: 2004-09-15
So Big
by Edna Ferber
Year Won: 1925 The account of Selina Peake DeJong in early 1900s Chicago and her story of overcoming.
Call Number: Fict Fer
ISBN: 9780061859984
Publication Date: 2010-06-15
One of Ours
by Willa Cather
Year Won: 1923 Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully written Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his parents, all but rejected by his wife, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to.
Call Number: * this title is available at SSPL in large print as well as part of an anthology of Cather's works *
Fict Cat, LT Fict Cat
ISBN: 0940450399
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Year Won: 1921 Archer must decide between his fiancée and the Countess who comes with dreadful scandal.
Call Number: Fict Wha - LOST
* available in large print, LT Fict Wha *
ISBN: 002026478X
Publication Date: 1992
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