The winners and nominated finalists of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by administrator Marjorie Miller via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention a ticket into a very illustrious club.
The full list of winners and nominated finalists from the arts & letters categories is below.
FICTION
Winner:
Angel Down by Daniel Kraus (Atria Books)
Finalists:
Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books)
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters (Random House)
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DRAMA
Winner:
Liberation by Bess Wohl
Finalists:
Bowl EP by Nazareth Hassan
Meet the Cartozians by Talene Monahon
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HISTORY
Winner:
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
Finalists:
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield (W.W. Norton & Company)
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BIOGRAPHY
Winner:
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists:
The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford by James McWilliams (University of Arkansas Press)
True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen by Lance Richardson (Pantheon)
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MEMOIR
Winner:
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists:
I’ll Tell You When I’m Home by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis by Anelise Chen (One World)
Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya (Random House)
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POETRY
Winner:
Ars Poetica by Juliana Spahr (Wesleyan University Press)
Finalists:
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always by Douglas Kearney (Wave Books)
The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith (Scribner)
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GENERAL NONFICTION
Winner:
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (Crown)
Finalists:
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church by Kevin Sack (Crown)
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MUSIC
Winner:
Picaflor: A Future Myth by Gabriela Lena Frank
Finalists:
In the Arms of the Beloved by Billy Childs
American Descent by Andrew Rindfleisch
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CRITICISM
Winner:
Mark Lamster, The Dallas Morning News
Finalists:
Michael J. Lewis, The Wall Street Journal
Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker*
SPECIAL CITATION:
Julie K. Brown, “for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 and 2018 that exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s systematic abuse of young women, the justice system that protected him, and, over time, his powerful network of associates and enablers.”
See the full list of winners—including all the writers recognized for journalism, commentary, photography, graphic arts, and reportage—here.
Source:
lithub.com
