May 6, 2024, 3:40pm
The winners and nominated finalists of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by administrator Marjorie Miller via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention a ticket into a very illustrious club.
The full list of winners and nominated finalists from the arts & letters categories is below.
FICTION
Winner:
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips (Knopf)
Finalists:
Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li (FSG)
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random House)
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DRAMA
Winner:
Primary Trust by Eboni Booth
Finalists:
Here There Are Blueberries by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
Public Obscenities by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
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HISTORY
Winner:
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
Finalists:
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion by Elliott West (University of Nebraska Press)
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the U.S. Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Michael Willrich (Basic Books)
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BIOGRAPHY
Winners:
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig (FSG)
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster)
Finalist:
Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty (St. Martin’s Press
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MEMOIR
Winner:
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth)
Finalists:
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland (Penguin Press)
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen (Penguin Press)
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POETRY
Winner:
Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som (Georgia Review Books)
Finalists:
To 2040 by Jorie Graham (Copper Canyon Press)
Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff (Penguin Press)
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GENERAL NONFICTION
Winner:
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan Books)
Finalists:
Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World by John Vaillant (Knopf)
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara (St. Martin’s Press)
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MUSIC
Winner:
Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith) by Tyshawn Sorey
Finalists:
Double Concerto for esperanza spalding, Claire Chase and large orchestra by Felipe Lara
Paper Pianos by Mary Kouyoumdjian
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SPECIAL CITATIONS:
Greg Tate
The journalists covering Gaza
