2022 Pulitzer Prize

The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University on May 9, 2022. Joshua Cohen won the Fiction prize for The Netanyahus, a comic novel built around a real episode in the life of Benzion Netanyahu, and James Ijames won Drama for Fat Ham, which resets Hamlet at a Southern family barbecue. The History prize was shared by Nicole Eustace's Covered with Night and Ada Ferrer's Cuba: An American History. The Biography prize went to Chasing Me to My Grave, the late artist Winfred Rembert's account of the Jim Crow South as told to Erin I. Kelly. Diane Seuss won Poetry for frank: sonnets, and Andrea Elliott won General Nonfiction for Invisible Child. Eleven finalists were named across the six book and drama categories.