2023 Pulitzer Prize

The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University on May 8, 2023, the first year the board awarded a separate prize for Memoir or Autobiography. The Fiction prize went to two novels, Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Hernan Diaz's Trust, and Sanaz Toossi won Drama for English. Jefferson Cowie took History for Freedom's Dominion, Beverly Gage won Biography for G-Man, her life of J. Edgar Hoover, and Hua Hsu received the inaugural Memoir or Autobiography prize for Stay True. Carl Phillips won Poetry for Then the War, and Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa won General Nonfiction for His Name Is George Floyd, which was also a Biography finalist. Fourteen finalist places were named across the seven categories.