The 2024 winners of the Pulitzer Prize were just announced. They include the following:
For Fiction Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips
The finalists were:
Same Bed Different Dreams, by Ed Park (Random House)
Wednesday’s Child, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
For Drama: “Primary Trust,” by Eboni Booth
Finalists were:
“Here There Are Blueberries,” by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
“Public Obscenities,” by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
For History: No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era, by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
The Finalists were: American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, by Michael Willrich (Basic Books)
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West (University of Nebraska Press)
For Biography: King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster)
The Finalists were:
Larry McMurtry: A Life, by Tracy Daugherty (St. Martin’s Press)
For Memoir or Autobiography Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth)
The Finalists:
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, by Jonathan Rosen (Penguin Press)
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, by Andrew Leland (Penguin Press)
For Poetry Tripas: Poems, by Brandon Som (Georgia Review Books)
The Finalists were:
Information Desk: An Epic, by Robyn Schiff (Penguin Books)
To 2040, by Jorie Graham (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan Books)
The Finalists were:
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, by Siddharth Kara (St. Martin’s Press)
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, by John Vaillant (Knopf)
For Fiction
Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips
The finalists were:
Same Bed Different Dreams, by Ed Park (Random House)
Wednesday’s Child, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
For Drama:
“Primary Trust,” by Eboni Booth
Finalists were:
“Here There Are Blueberries,” by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
“Public Obscenities,” by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
For History:
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era, by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
The Finalists were:
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, by Michael Willrich (Basic Books)
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West (University of Nebraska Press)
For Biography:
King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster)
The Finalists were:
Larry McMurtry: A Life, by Tracy Daugherty (St. Martin’s Press)
For Memoir or Autobiography
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth)
The Finalists:
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, by Jonathan Rosen (Penguin Press)
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, by Andrew Leland (Penguin Press)
For Poetry
Tripas: Poems, by Brandon Som (Georgia Review Books)
The Finalists were:
Information Desk: An Epic, by Robyn Schiff (Penguin Books)
To 2040, by Jorie Graham (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction:
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan Books)
The Finalists were:
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, by Siddharth Kara (St. Martin’s Press)
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, by John Vaillant (Knopf)