Pulitzer Prize 2023

by Columbia University

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19 books

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.

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Fiction

Winners

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver, 2022

Trust

Hernan Diaz, 2022

Fiction Finalists

The Immortal King Rao

Vauhini Vara, 2023

Biography

Winner

G-Man

J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage, 2023

Biography Finalists

His Name Is George Floyd

Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa, 2023

Mr. B

George Balanchine's 20th Century

Jennifer Homans, 2022

History

Winner

Freedom's Dominion

A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Jefferson Cowie, 2022

History Finalists

Seeing Red

Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Michael John Witgen, 2021

Watergate

Garrett M. Graff, 2022

Poetry

Winner

Then the War

And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

Carl Phillips, 2022

Poetry Finalists

Blood Snow

dg nanouk okpik, 2022

Still Life

Jay Hopler, 2022

General Nonfiction

Winner

His Name Is George Floyd

Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa, 2023

General Nonfiction Finalists

Kingdom of Characters

The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Sounds Wild and Broken

Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

David George Haskell, 2022

Under the Skin

The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America

Linda Villarosa, 2023

Autobiography

Winner

Stay True

Autobiography Finalists

Easy Beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones, 2022

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, 2022