Pulitzer Prize 2025

by Columbia University

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19 books

The Pulitzer Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the United States, recognizing outstanding achievements in journalism, literature, drama, music, and other fields12. Established in 1917 through the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the prizes are administered by Columbia University.

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Fiction

Winner

James

Percival Everett, 2024

Finalists

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel, 2024

Mice 1961

Stacey Levine, 2024

The Unicorn Woman

Gayl Jones, 2024

History

Winners

Native Nations

A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal, 2025

COMBEE

Edda L. Fields-Black, 2024

Finalist

Plantation Goods

A Material History of American Slavery

Seth Rockman, 2024

Biography

Winner

Every Living Thing

The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Jason Roberts, 2024

Finalists

John Lewis

David Greenberg, 2024

The World She Edited: Katherine S. White at The New Yorker

Amy Reading, 2024

Memoir or Autobiography

Winner

Feeding Ghosts

A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls, 2024

Finalists

Fi

A Memoir of My Son

Alexandra Fuller, 2024

I Heard Her Call My Name

A Memoir of Transition

Lucy Sante, 2024

Poetry

Winner

New and Selected Poems

Marie Howe, 2024

Section headline

Finalists

An Authentic Life

Jennifer Chang, 2024

Bluff

Danez Smith, 2024

General Nonfiction

Winner

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

Benjamin Nathans, 2024

Finalists

I Am on the Hit List

A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India

Rollo Romig, 2024

Until I Find You

Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

Rachel Nolan, 2024