Pulitzer Prizes

Columbia University awards Pulitzers each year for excellence in "journalism, arts and letters." While most categories are for journalism and news-related commentary, there are categories for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more.

The winners for 2024 are:

Fiction: Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

Drama: Primary Trust by Eboni Booth

History: No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones

Biography: King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

Memoir or Autobiography: Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

Poetry: Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som (Available on Overdrive/Libby and Hoopla)

General Nonfiction: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

Music: Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith) by Tyshawn Sorey