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• One of Ours by Willa Cather (1923)
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• Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1930)
• Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931)
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932)
• The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933)
• Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Pafford Miller (1934)
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• The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (1938)
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• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973)
• No award given (1974)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975)

• Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1976)
• No award given (1977)
• Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (1978)
• The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1979)
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• Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989)
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• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992)
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• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995)
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• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999)
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