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Authors with the Most Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Award Wins

This list features the authors that have been awarded the most Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in history.

RANK

AUTHOR

AWARD WINS

WINNING BOOKS

1

Booth Tarkington

2

The Magnificent Ambersons (1919)

Alice Adams (1922)

2

William Faulkner

2

A Fable (1955)

The Reivers (1963)

3

John Updike

2

Rabbit Is Rich (1982)

Rabbit At Rest (1991)

4

Colson Whitehead

2

The Underground Railroad (2017)

The Nickel Boys (2020)


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References

Pulitzer Prize, (n.d.). Pulitzer Prize winners by category: Fiction. [online] Available at: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219 [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Wikipedia contributors, (2024). Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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