2020 Pulitzer Prize

The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced on May 4, 2020, in a livestream the administrator delivered from her home after the pandemic forced a delay of several weeks. Colson Whitehead won Fiction for The Nickel Boys, his second Fiction prize, and Michael R. Jackson won Drama for the musical A Strange Loop. W. Caleb McDaniel took History for Sweet Taste of Liberty, Benjamin Moser won Biography for Sontag: Her Life and Work, and Jericho Brown won Poetry for The Tradition. The board awarded two General Nonfiction prizes, to Anne Boyer's The Undying and to Greg Grandin's The End of the Myth, which it moved over from the History category. Ten other finalists were named across the six categories.