The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced!

Awarded for journalistic and artistic excellence, the Pulitzer Prize honors excellence in 21 different categories including Investigative Reporting, Criticism, Fiction, Poetry, and Music.  Check out the finalists and winners for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize below:

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Fiction

Winner: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

 

Finalists:

The Dutch House by Ann Prachett and The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

 

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History

Winner: Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel

Finalists:

Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin

 

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Biography

Winner: Sontag by Benjamin Moser

Finalists:

Our Man by George Packer and Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair

 

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Poetry

Winner: The Tradition by Jericho Brown

Finalists:

Dunce by Mary Ruefle and Only as the Day Is Long by Dorianne Laux

 

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General Nonfiction

Winners: 

The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin, and The Undying by Anne Boyer

    

Finalists:

Elderhood by Louise Aronson and Agatha Christie by Laura Thompson

 

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