| 1975 |
Loyd Little |
Parthian Shot |
| 1976 |
Renata Adler |
Speedboat |
| 1977 |
Darcy O'Brien |
A Way of Life, Like Any Other |
| 1978 |
Reuben Bercovitch |
Hasen |
| 1979 |
Alan Saperstein |
Mom Kills Kids and Self |
| 1980 |
Joan Silber |
Household Words |
| 1981 |
Marilynne Robinson |
Housekeeping |
| 1982 |
Bobbie Ann Mason |
Shiloh and Other Stories |
| 1983 |
Joan Chase |
During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba |
| 1984 |
Josephine Humphreys |
Dreams of Sleep |
| 1985 |
Alan V. Hewar |
Lady's Time |
| 1986 |
Mary Ward Brown |
Tongues of Flame |
| 1987 |
Lawrence Thornton |
Imagining Argentina |
| 1988 |
Jane Hamilton |
The Book of Ruth |
| 1989 |
Mark Richard |
The Ice at the Bottom of the World |
| 1990 |
Bernard Cooper |
Maps to Anywhere |
| 1991 |
Louis Begley |
Wartime Lies |
| 1992 |
Edward P. Jones |
Lost in the City |
| 1993 |
Dagoberto Gilb |
The Magic of Blood |
| 1994 |
Susan Power |
The Grass Dancer |
| 1995 |
Chang-Rae Lee |
Native Speaker |
| 1996 |
Ha Jin |
Ocean of Words |
| 1997 |
Charlotte Bacon |
A Private State |
| 1998 |
Rosina Lippi |
Homestead |
| 1999 |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| 2000 |
Akhil Sharma |
An Obedient Father |
| 2001 |
Justin Cronin |
Mary and O'Neil |
| 2002 |
Gabriel Brownstein |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W |
| 2003 |
Jennifer Haigh |
Mrs. Kimble |
| 2004 |
Chris Abani |
Graceland |
| 2005 |
Yiyun Li |
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers |
| 2006 |
Ben Fountain |
Brief Encounters With Che Guevara |
