Pulitzer Prize 2020

16 books

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States.

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead, 2020

Finalists

The Dutch House

A Novel

Ann Patchett, 2020

The Topeka School

A Novel

Ben Lerner, 2019

History

Winner

Sweet Taste of Liberty

A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

W. Caleb McDaniel, 2019

Finalists

Race for Profit

How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2019

The End of the Myth

From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin, 2019

Biography

Winner

Sontag

Her Life and Work

Benjamin Moser, 2019

Finalists

Our Man

Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

George Packer, 2019

Parisian Lives

Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir

Deirdre Bair, 2019

Poetry

Winner

The Tradition

Jericho Brown, 2019

Finalists

Dunce

Mary Ruefle, 2019

Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems

Dorianne Laux, 2019

General Nonfiction

Winner

The End of the Myth

From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin, 2019

The Undying

Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care

Anne Boyer, 2019

Finalists

Elderhood

Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Louise Aronson, 2019

Solitary

Albert Woodfox, 2019