2024 Pulitzer Prize

The 2024 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University on May 6, 2024. Jayne Anne Phillips won the Fiction prize for Night Watch, a novel set in the aftermath of the Civil War, and Eboni Booth won Drama for Primary Trust. Jacqueline Jones received the History prize for No Right to an Honest Living, a study of Black workers in Civil War-era Boston. The Biography prize was shared by Jonathan Eig's King: A Life and Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife. Cristina Rivera Garza won Memoir or Autobiography for Liliana's Invincible Summer, Brandon Som took Poetry for Tripas, and Nathan Thrall won General Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. The board named thirteen finalists across the seven categories.