2015 Pulitzer Prize

The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2015. Anthony Doerr won the Fiction prize for All the Light We Cannot See, which follows a blind French girl and a German orphan through the Second World War, and Stephen Adly Guirgis won Drama for Between Riverside and Crazy. Elizabeth A. Fenn took History for Encounters at the Heart of the World, a history of the Mandan people, and David I. Kertzer won Biography for The Pope and Mussolini. Gregory Pardlo won Poetry for Digest, and Elizabeth Kolbert received the General Nonfiction prize for The Sixth Extinction. Thirteen finalists were named across the six categories, with three in Fiction.