Past Winners
| Year | Author | Book |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | |
| 1930 | Willa Cather | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| 1935 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth |
| 1940 | Ellen Glasgow | |
| 1945 | Booth Tarkington | |
| 1950 | William Faulkner | |
| 1955 | Eudora Welty | The Ponder Heart |
| 1960 | James Gould Cozzens | By Love Possessed |
| 1965 | John Cheever | 'The Wapshot Scandal |
| 1970 | William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| 1975 | Thomas Pynchon (Declined the award) | Gravity's Rainbow |
| 1980 | William Maxwell | So Long, See You Tomorrow |
| 1985 | No award | |
| 1990 | E. L. Doctorow | Billy Bathgate |
| 1995 | John Updike | Rabbit at Rest |
| 2000 | Don DeLillo | Underworld |
| 2005 | Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire |
| 2010 | Peter Matthiessen | Shadow Country |
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