<P> Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year . </P> <Ul> <Li> 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer <Ul> <Li> Birdy by William Wharton </Li> <Li> The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (posthumous win) <Ul> <Li> Godric by Frederick Buechner </Li> <Li> So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike <Ul> <Li> A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone </Li> <Li> Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker <Ul> <Li> Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler </Li> <Li> Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy <Ul> <Li> Cathedral by Raymond Carver </Li> <Li> The Feud by Thomas Berger </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie <Ul> <Li> I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O'Hehir </Li> <Li> Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry <Ul> <Li> The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler </Li> <Li> Continental Drift by Russell Banks </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor <Ul> <Li> Paradise by Donald Barthelme </Li> <Li> Whites by Norman Rush </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison <Ul> <Li> Persian Nights by Diane Johnson </Li> <Li> That Night by Alice McDermott </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler <Ul> <Li> Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer <Ul> <Li> Birdy by William Wharton </Li> <Li> The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> Birdy by William Wharton </Li> <Li> The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth </Li> </Ul>

What book won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1980