Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Listed below are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). The list also includes recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, which was replaced by this category in 1948. For lists of Jewish novelists, playwrights, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

Edna Ferber (1925), So Big
Herman Wouk (1952), The Caine Mutiny
MacKinlay Kantor¹ (1956), Andersonville
Bernard Malamud (1967), The Fixer
Saul Bellow (1976), Humboldt's Gift
Norman Mailer (1980), The Executioner's Song
Alison Lurie² (1985), Foreign Affairs
Art Spiegelman (1992), Maus
Steven Millhauser (1997), Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Philip Roth (1998), American Pastoral
Michael Chabon (2001), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Geraldine Brooks³ (2006), March
Joshua Cohen (2022), The Netanyahus

NOTES
1. Born Benjamin MacKinlay Kantor to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. See My Father's Voice: MacKinlay Kantor Long Remembered, by Tim Kantor (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988, pp. 28-29, 40, 48-49, 92).
2. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
3. Convert to Judaism; see Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, by Geraldine Brooks (Anchor Books, New York, 1995, Chapter 5).

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