2016 Pulitzer Prize

The 2016 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2016, the centennial year of the prizes. Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Fiction prize for his debut novel The Sympathizer, narrated by a communist double agent after the fall of Saigon, and Lin-Manuel Miranda won Drama for the musical Hamilton. T.J. Stiles took History for Custer's Trials, which the board moved from the Biography category. William Finnegan won Biography or Autobiography for Barbarian Days, his surfing memoir, and Peter Balakian won Poetry for Ozone Journal. Joby Warrick received the General Nonfiction prize for Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS. Twelve finalists were named across the six categories.