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List: Pulitzer Prize (Fiction)

The Hours (1998) - Michael Cunningham (1952-) (Grade:F)

Advise and Consent (1959) - Allen Drury (-1998) (Grade:A)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926 -2/19/2016) (Grade:A+)

The Fixer (1966) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914 -03/18/1986) (Grade:A+)

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) - Steven Millhauser (8/03/1943 -) (Grade:A+)

American Pastoral (1997) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018) (Grade:B+)

The Killer Angels (1974) - Michael Shaara (6/23/1928 -5/05/1988) (Grade:A+)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Newton Booth Tarkington (07/29/1869 -05/19/1946) (Grade:A)

All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (4/24/1905 -9/15/1989)  (Grade:A+)

The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937)  (Grade:A)

1938)   The Late George Apley: a Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937) - John P. Marquand (11/10/1893-7/16/1960)  (Grade:B)

1940)   The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:A-)

1945)   A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993)  (Grade:B+)

1952)   The Caine Mutiny (1951) - Herman Wouk (1915-)  (Grade:D+)

1953)

The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)  (Grade:A+)

1958)   A Death in the Family (1957) - James Agee (1909-1955)  (Grade:C)

1968)   The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) - William Styron (6/11/1925 -11/01/2006)  (Grade:C+)

1971)   Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)  (Grade:C)

1973)   The Optimist's Daughter (1972) - Eudora Welty (1909-2001)  (Grade:D)

1979)   The Stories of John Cheever (1975) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)  (Grade:C+)

1980)   The Executioner's Song (1979) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007)  (Grade:B-)

1981)   A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) - John Kennedy Toole (12/17/1937 -3/26/1969)  (Grade:B-)

1983)   The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944 -)  (Grade:B+)

1984)   Ironweed (1983) - William Kennedy (01/16/1928-)  (Grade:A)

1987)   A Summons to Memphis (1986) - Peter Taylor (1917-1994)  (Grade:D+)

1988)   Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)  (Grade:F)

1989)   Breathing Lessons (1988) - Anne Tyler (10/25/1941 -)  (Grade:C)

1992)   A Thousand Acres (1991) - Jane Smiley (9/26/1949 -)  (Grade:C-)

1994)   The Shipping News (1993) - E. Annie Proulx (8/22/1935 -)  (Grade:C-)