2019 Pulitzer Prize

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University on April 15, 2019. Richard Powers won the Fiction prize for The Overstory, a novel that braids together human lives and the forests around them, and Jackie Sibblies Drury won Drama for Fairview. David W. Blight received the History prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, and Jeffrey C. Stewart won Biography for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke. Forrest Gander took Poetry for Be With, and Eliza Griswold won General Nonfiction for Amity and Prosperity, her account of one Pennsylvania family in the fracking boom. Two finalists were named in each of the six categories.