2025 Pulitzer Prize

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University on May 5, 2025. Percival Everett won the Fiction prize for James, his retelling of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the enslaved Jim, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins received the Drama prize for Purpose. The board split the History prize between Edda L. Fields-Black's Combee and Kathleen DuVal's Native Nations. Jason Roberts won Biography for Every Living Thing, Tessa Hulls won Memoir or Autobiography for the graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, Marie Howe took Poetry for New and Selected Poems, and Benjamin Nathans won General Nonfiction for To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, a history of the Soviet dissident movement. Fourteen finalists were also named across the seven categories.