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2026 Pulitzer Prize

Announced

The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University on May 4, 2026. Daniel Kraus won the Fiction prize for Angel Down, and Bess Wohl received the Drama prize for her play Liberation. Jill Lepore's We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution took the History award, Amanda Vaill's Pride and Pleasure, a portrait of the Schuyler sisters, won in Biography, and Yiyun Li's Things in Nature Merely Grow was honored in Memoir or Autobiography. Juliana Spahr won the Poetry prize for Ars Poeticas, and Brian Goldstone's There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America won General Nonfiction. Across these seven categories the board also named 15 finalists, two in most categories and three in Memoir or Autobiography.

Source: official announcement

Fiction

Drama

Also recognized

  • Bowl EP by Nazareth HassanFinalist
  • Meet the Cartozians by Talene MonahonFinalist

History

Also recognized

  • We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill LeporeWinner
  • King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott AndersonFinalist

Biography

Also recognized

  • The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford by James McWilliamsFinalist
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen by Lance RichardsonFinalist

Memoir or Autobiography

Poetry

General Nonfiction

Also recognized

  • A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen GillilandFinalist

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