1918: Ernest Poole •1919: Booth Tarkington •1920: ⌂ •1921: Edith Wharton •1922: Booth Tarkington •1923: Willa Cather •1924: Margaret Wilson •1925: Edna Ferber •1926: Sinclair Lewis •1927: Louis Bromfield •1928: Thornton Wilder •1929: Julia Peterkin •1930: Oliver La Farge •1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes •1932: Pearl Buck •1933: T. S. Stribling •1934: Caroline Miller •1935: Josephine Johnson •1936: Harold L. Davis •1937: Margaret Mitchell •1938: John Philips Marquand •1939: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings •1940: John Steinbeck •1941: ⌂ •1942: Ellen Glasgow •1943: Upton Sinclair •1944: Martin Flavin •1945: John Hersey •1946: ⌂ •1947: Robert Penn Warren •1948: James Michener •1949: James Gould Cozzens •1950: A. B. Guthrie •1951: Conrad Richter •1952: Herman Wouk •1953: Ernest Hemingway •1954: ⌂ •1955: William Faulkner •1956: MacKinlay Kantor •1957: ⌂ •1958: James Agee •1959: Robert Lewis Taylor •1960: Allen Drury •1961: Harper Lee •1962: Edwin O'Connor •1963: William Faulkner •1964: ⌂ •1965: Shirley Ann Grau •1966: Katherine Anne Porter •1967: Bernard Malamud •1968: William Styron •1969: N. Scott Momaday •1970: Jean Stafford •1971: ⌂ •1972: Wallace Stegner •1973: Eudora Welty •1974: ⌂ •1975: Michael Shaara •1976: Saul Bellow •1977: ⌂ •1978: James Alan McPherson •1979: John Cheever •1980: Norman Mailer •1981: John Kennedy Toole •1982: John Updike •1983: Alice Walker •1984: William Kennedy •1985: Alison Lurie •1986: Larry McMurtry •1987: Peter Taylor •1988: Toni Morrison •1989: Anne Tyler •1990: Oscar Hijuelos •1991: John Updike •1992: Jane Smiley •1993: Robert Olen Butler •1994: Annie Proulx •1995: Carol Shields •1996: Richard Ford •1997: Steven Millhauser •1998: Philip Roth •1999: Michael Cunningham •2000: Jhumpa Lahiri •2001: Michael Chabon •2002: Richard Russo •2003: Jeffrey Eugenides •2004: Edward P. Jones •2005: Marilynne Robinson •2006: Geraldine Brooks •2007: Cormac McCarthy •2008: Junot Díaz •2009: Elizabeth Strout •2010: Paul Harding •2011: Jennifer Egan •2012: ⌂ •2013: Adam Johnson •2014: Donna Tartt •2015: Anthony Doerr •2016: Viet Thanh Nguyen •2017: Colson Whitehead •2018: Andrew Sean Greer •2019: Richard Powers •2020: Colson Whitehead •2021: Louise Erdrich •2022: Joshua Cohen