On April 15th, while we were on break, the Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. To view the announcement, visit the Pulitzer website. Below is the list of winners for each category in the Letters, Drama & Music section.
Fiction
- The Overstory, by Richard Powers (Winner)
- The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai (Finalist)
- There There, by Tommy Orange (Finalist)
Drama
- Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury (Winner)
- Dance Nation, by Clare Barron (Finalist)
- What the Constitution Means to Me, by Heidi Schreck (Finalist)
History
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight (Winner)
- American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic, by Victoria Johnson (Finalist)
- Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Finalist)
Biography
- The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Winner)
- Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris, by Carline Weber (Finalist)
- The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, by Max Boot (Finalist)
Poetry
- Be With, by Forrest Gander (Winner)
- feeld, by Jos Charles (Finalist)
- Like, by A.E. Stallings (Finalist)
General NonFiction
- Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, by Eliza Griswold (Winner)
- In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers, by Bernice Yeung (Finalist)
- Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, by Elizabeth Rush (Finalist)
Music