His 2001 novel Empire Falls received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

The book received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The novel received the Brage Prize for Fiction for Adults.

It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 (see: 2001 in literature).

Half of a Yellow Sun received the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.

The Killer Angels received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

In 2004, the book received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Interpreter of Maladies sold 600,000 copies and received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (only the seventh time a story collection had won the award).

It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1993.