2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Jayne Anne Phillips | Night Watch | A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia鈥檚 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. |
| Pulitzer Prize for History | Jacqueline Jones | No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston鈥檚 Black Workers in the Civil War Era | A breathtakingly original reconstruction of free Black life in Boston that profoundly reshapes our understanding of the city鈥檚 abolitionist legacy and the challenging reality for its Black residents. |
| Pulitzer Prize for Biography | Jonathan Eig | King: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr. | 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鈥檚 life, exploring his strengths and weaknesses, including the self-questioning and depression that accompanied his determination. |
| Ilyon Woo | Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom | 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. | |
| Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography | Cristina Rivera Garza | Liliana鈥檚 Invincible Summer: A Sister鈥檚 Search for Justice | A genre-bending account of the author鈥檚 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. |
| Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | Brandon Som | Tripas: Poems | A collection that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet鈥檚 dual Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlighting the dignity of his family鈥檚 working lives, creating community rather than conflict. |
| Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction | Nathan Thrall | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy | A finely reported and intimate account of life under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, told through a portrait of a Palestinian father whose five-year-old son dies in a fiery school bus crash when Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams are delayed by security regulations. |
2023 Winners聽 聽Kingsolver, Barbara聽 聽 Demon Copperhead
Diaz, Hernan聽 聽Trust
