2018 Pulitzer Prize

The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University on April 16, 2018. Andrew Sean Greer won the Fiction prize for Less, a comic novel about a writer traveling the world to avoid a former lover's wedding, and Martyna Majok won Drama for Cost of Living. Jack E. Davis received the History prize for The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, and Caroline Fraser won Biography for Prairie Fires, her life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Frank Bidart took Poetry for Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, and James Forman Jr. won General Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own, a study of crime policy and Black communities. Two finalists were named in each of the six categories.