Columbia University announced the winners of the Pulitzer Prizes on Monday afternoon, with Hernan Diaz, Barbara Kingsolver, and Beverly Gage among the authors taking home the awards for journalism and the arts.
Two winners were named in the fiction category: Diaz’s Trust, which won last year’s Kirkus Prize for fiction, and Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead.
Gage took home the biography award for G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. The book previously won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in biography, and the Bancroft Prize in American History.
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa’s His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice won the general nonfiction prize. It was also named a finalist in the biography category.
In history, the winner was Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, by Jefferson Cowie. Hua Hsu took home the award for memoir or autobiography for Stay True, which previously won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.
The poetry prize went to Carl Phillips for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, while Sanaz Toossi won the drama award for English. The winner of this year’s criticism award went to Andrea Long Chu, who reviews books for New York magazine.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
