Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winners (1943-1963)

1949

• Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck

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

• 1984 by George Orwell

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1955

• Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

1960

• Heart's Needle by W D Snodgrass

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

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

1953

• Collected Poems 1917–1952 by Archibald MacLeish

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• 1984 by George Orwell

1943

• A Witness Tree by Robert Frost

• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1944

• Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benet

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• 1984 by George Orwell

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

1961

• Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley

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

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

1963

• Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• 1984 by George Orwell

1958

• Promises: Poems 1954–1956 by Robert Penn Warren

• The Collected Poems of Robert Frost

• The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

1945

• V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• 1984 by George Orwell

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