This Year's Pulitzer Prize Winners
Each year, the Pulitzer Prizes honor the highest achievements in print journalism, literary achievement, and musical composition in the preceding year across 23 categories. Below are the winners and finalists in fiction, history, biography, memoir or autobiography, poetry, and general nonfiction. Honorees include Jonathan Eig's monumental biography of MLK Jr., Cristina Rivera Garza's heart-wrenching investigation into her sister's murder, and Jayne Anne Phillips' harrowing, post-Civil War novel.
18 books
Winner, Fiction
Michael Chabon & Priscilla Gilman
Night Watch (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Jayne Anne Phillips"A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal."
Michael Chabon & Priscilla GilmanHardcover, 2023
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Finalist, Fiction
cph & Michael Chabon
Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park"An inventive postmodern novel that moves from the brutal Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula to a lonely Korean American boy’s passion for the Buffalo Sabres, interlinked narratives that jump historical and imaginary time zones with humor, sorrow and irreverence."
cph & Michael ChabonOut of stock
Finalist, Fiction
Celeste Ng & Elizabeth McCracken
Wednesday's Child: Stories
Yiyun Li"An affecting volume of thematically and stylistically connected stories that are set around tasks carried out by caretakers of the infirm and mothers struggling to carry on after the death of a child, work that mixes grief with gentle humor."
Celeste Ng & Elizabeth McCrackenHardcover, 2023
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Winner, History
No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Jacqueline Jones"A breathtakingly original reconstruction of free Black life in Boston that profoundly reshapes our understanding of the city’s abolitionist legacy and the challenging reality for its Black residents."
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Finalist, History
MKN & Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
Elliott West"A masterly crafted and comprehensive narrative of how our nation’s history unfolded across the American West and how the West, no less than the Civil War, profoundly shaped the rise of modern America."
MKN & Daniel Steinmetz-JenkinsHardcover, 2023
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Finalist, History
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Michael Willrich"A riveting and beautifully written story of how anarchists and their lawyers remade American law, with profound implications for modern jurisprudence, and prompting serious reflection on the meaning and limits of democracy."
Hardcover, 2023
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Winner, Biography
John Harwood & Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig"A revelatory portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. that draws on new sources to enrich our understanding of each stage of the civil rights leader’s life, exploring his strengths and weaknesses, including the self-questioning and depression that accompanied his determination."
John Harwood & Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊Hardcover, 2023
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Winner, Biography
Steve Inskeep & Imani Perry
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo"A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they became famous abolitionists while evading bounty hunters."
Steve Inskeep & Imani PerryPaperback, 2024
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Finalist, Biography
Publishers Weekly
Larry McMurtry: A Life
Tracy Daugherty"An insightful literary biography of the celebrated author written with brio and humor that evokes the Depression-era Texas of his youth and the myth of the American West that he dedicated himself to exposing."
Publishers WeeklyHardcover, 2023
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Winner, Memoir or Autobiography
Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Sister's Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza"A genre-bending account of the author’s 20-year-old sister, murdered by a former boyfriend, that mixes memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography stitched together with a determination born of loss."
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