The Pulitzer Prizes, administered at Columbia University, were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher who left money to Columbia upon his death. A portion of his bequest was used to establish the Pulitzer Prize as an incentive to excellence. First awarded in 1917, Pulitzer specified solely four awards in journalism, four in books and drama, one for education, and five traveling scholarships. Since then, the Pulitzer Prize Board has increased the number of awards to 23 and introduced poetry, music, photography, memoir, and audio journalism as subjects. Below are the 2024 finalists and winners in the TBP collection under the category of Letters and Drama Prizes. The winners were announced on May 6.
For more information check the Awards’ Website.
Fiction
| NIGHT WATCH by Jayne Anne Phillips DB 117272 |
| SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS by Ed Park DB 117270 |
Biography
| KING: A LIFE by Jonathan Eig DB 115189, BR 25331 |
| MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE: AN EPIC JOURNEY FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM by Ilyon Woo DB 112758 |
Memoir or Autobiography
| LILIANA’S INVINCIBLE SUMMER: A SISTER’S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE by Cristina Rivera Garza DB 115091, en espanol DB 107986 |
| BEST MINDS: A STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, MADNESS, AND THE TRAGEDY OF GOOD INTENTIONS by Jonathan Rosen DB 114107 |
| COUNTRY OF THE BLIND: A MEMOIR AT THE END OF SIGHT by Andrew Leland DB 115575, BR 25166 |
General Nonfiction
| DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA: ANATOMY OF A JERUSALEM TRAGEDY by Nathan Thrall DB 118265 |
| COBALT RED: HOW THE BLOOD OF THE CONGO POWERS OUR LIVES by Kara Siddharth DB 112317 |
| FIRE WEATHER: A TRUE STORY FROM A HOTTER WORLD by John Vaillant DB 116220 |