The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday, amazingly there were two novels chosen for the award for fiction.
Pulitzer Awards for Books, Drama and Music
Fiction
"Demon Copperhead," by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
"Trust," by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
Finalist:
"The Immortal King Rao," by Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton & Company)
Drama
"English," by Sanaz Toossi
Finalists:
"On Sugarland," by Aleshea Harris
"The Far Country," by Lloyd Suh
History
"Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power," by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
Finalists:
"Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America," by Michael John Witgen (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)
"Watergate: A New History," by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Biography
"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," by Beverly Gage (Viking)
Finalists:
"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
"Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century," by Jennifer Homans (Random House)
Memoir or Autobiography
"Stay True," by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
Finalists:
"Easy Beauty: A Memoir," by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
"The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir," by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)
Poetry
"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists:
"Blood Snow," by dg nanouk okpik (Wave Books)
"Still Life," by the late Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)
General Nonfiction
"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
Finalists:
"Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern," by Jing Tsu (Riverhead Books)
"Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction," by David George Haskell (Viking)
"Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation," by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday)
Music
"Omar," by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels
Finalists:
"Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)," by Tyshawn Sorey
"Perspective," by Jerrilynn Patton
