WinnerThe Orphan Master’s Son
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Award year
2013 Pulitzer Prize
The 2013 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2013. Adam Johnson won the Fiction prize for The Orphan Master's Son, a novel set inside North Korea, and Ayad Akhtar won Drama for Disgraced, about a Muslim-American lawyer whose dinner party unravels. Fredrik Logevall took History for Embers of War, a study of France's defeat in Indochina and the path to American involvement in Vietnam. Tom Reiss won Biography for The Black Count, his life of Alexandre Dumas's father, Sharon Olds won Poetry for Stag's Leap, and Gilbert King received the General Nonfiction prize for Devil in the Grove. Two finalists were named in each of the six categories.
Fiction
- Winner
PulitzerWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Drama
WinnerDisgraced
Pulitzer Prize Winner
History
WinnerEmbers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Biography
WinnerThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Pulitzer Prize Winner
PulitzerPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Poetry
WinnerStag’s Leap
Pulitzer Prize Winner
General Nonfiction
WinnerDevil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Pulitzer Prize Winner
PulitzerBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Pulitzer Prize Finalist