For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Sonny Mehta (accepting for Cormac McCarthy) with the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "After This" by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and "The Echo Maker" by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).