Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University each spring since 1917. The awards are chosen by a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music, and Drama.

2023 Winners:

Fiction Trust by Hernan Diaz From an award-winning chronicler of our nation’s history and its legends comes his much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception.	Fiction Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
Poetry Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.	Nonfiction His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justic by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with Floyd's closest friends and family, his elementary school teachers and varsity coaches, civil rights icons, and those in the highest seats of political power, Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa offer a poignant and moving exploration of George Floyd's America, revealing how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.
History Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.	Biography G-Man: J Edgar Hoover & the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage G-Man places Hoover back where he once stood in American political history — not at the fringes, but at the center —and uses his story to explain the trajectories of governance, policing, race, ideology, political culture, and federal power as they evolved over the course of the 20th century.
Autobiography Stay True by Hua Hsu A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.