Winners Click on photo for details 1986 WinnerCynthia Ozick 1987 WinnerRobert Coover 1988 WinnerDonald Barthelme 1989 WinnerTobias Wolff 1990 WinnerJoyce Carol Oates 1991 WinnerPaul Bowles 1992 WinnerEudora Welty 1993 WinnerGrace Paley 1994 WinnerTillie Olsen 1995 WinnerRichard Ford 1996 WinnerAndre Dubus 1997 WinnerGina Berriault 1998 WinnerJohn Edgar Wideman 1999 WinnerJoy Williams 2000 WinnerDeborah Eisenberg 2001 WinnerAlice Munro 2002 WinnerMavis Gallant 2003 WinnerAntonya Nelson 2004 WinnerLorrie Moore 2005 WinnerAnn Beattie 2006 WinnerJohn Updike 2007 WinnerStuart Dybek 2008 WinnerAmy Hempel 2009 WinnerMary Robison 2010 WinnerJames Salter 2011 WinnerCharles Baxter 2012 WinnerRichard Bausch 2013 WinnerElizabeth Spencer 2014 WinnerT. C. Boyle 2015 WinnerAndrea Barrett 2016 WinnerJim Shepard