Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners (1968-1991)

1977

• No award given

• Best Picture: Star Wars

• Best Director: Woody Allen

• Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss

1974

• No award given

• Best Picture: The Godfather Part II

• Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola

• Best Actor: Jack Nicholson

1973

• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

1985

• Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1987

• A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

1991

• Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

• The Firm by John Grisham

• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

1972

• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• 1984 by George Orwell

1976

• Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• 1984 by George Orwell

1970

• Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• 1984 by George Orwell

1984

• Ironweed by William Kennedy

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood