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Biography - 2023
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage
(Viking)

A deeply researched and nuanced look at one of the most polarizing figures in
U.S. history that depicts the longtime FBI director in all his complexity, with
monumental achievements and crippling flaws.

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Drama - 2023
English, by Sanaz Toossi

A quietly powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English
language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and
travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their
identities and also represent a new life. 

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History - 2023
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, by Jefferson
Cowie (Basic Books)

A resonant account of an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries shaped by
settler colonialism and slavery, a portrait that illustrates the evolution of
white supremacy by drawing powerful connections between anti-government and
racist ideologies. 

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Illustrated Reporting and Commentary - 2023
Mona Chalabi, contributor, The New York Times

For striking illustrations that combine statistical reporting with keen analysis
to help readers understand the immense wealth and economic power of Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos. 

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Breaking News Photography - 2023
Photography Staff of Associated Press

For unique and urgent images from the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine, including the devastation of Mariupol after other news organizations
left, victims of the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the resilience of
the Ukrainian people who were able to flee.

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Feature Photography - 2023
Christina House of the Los Angeles Times

For an intimate look into the life of a pregnant 22-year-old woman living on the
street in a tent–images that show her emotional vulnerability as she tries and
ultimately loses the struggle to raise her child

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Fiction - 2023
Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)

A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and
ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a
complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.

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Fiction - 2023
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

A masterful recasting of David Copperfield, narrated by an Appalachian boy whose
wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction,
institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.

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Memoir or Autobiography - 2023
Stay True, by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)

An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful
friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the
presumed logic of our personal narratives. 

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Poetry - 2023
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux)

A masterful collection that chronicles American culture as the country struggles
to make sense of its politics, of life in the wake of a pandemic, and of our
place in a changing global community.   

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General Nonfiction - 2023
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with
police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but
whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown. (Moved by the Board
from the Biography category.)

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Music - 2023
Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

Premiered on May 27, 2022 at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C., an
innovative and compelling opera about enslaved people brought to North America
from Muslim countries, a musical work that respectfully represents African as
well as African American traditions, expanding the language of the operatic form
while conveying the humanity of those condemned to bondage.

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News April 1, 2024



PULITZER ON THE ROAD PODCAST

The Pulitzer on the Road Podcast features interviews with 2023 winners in
Journalism and Books.

News March 25, 2024


PULITZER PRIZES LAUNCH PODCAST

The six podcast episodes of Pulitzer on the Road will be released weekly
beginning today, each featuring 2023 winners in Journalism and Books in
conversation with Pulitzer Board members.

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News February 28, 2024


PULITZER ON THE ROAD IN AUSTIN: AUTHOR HERNAN DIAZ AND JOURNALIST ELI SASLOW

2023 Fiction winner Hernan Diaz and 2023 Feature Writing winner Eli
Saslow discussed writing, character building and the creative process at
the Austin Central Public Library Gallery on November 16, 2023.

News March 7, 2024


PULITZER ON THE ROAD IN DRIPPING SPRINGS: AUTHOR HERNAN DIAZ AND JOURNALIST ELI
SASLOW

Prior to November 16, 2023's Pulitzer on the Road event in Austin, 2023 Fiction
winner Hernan Diaz and 2023 Feature Writing winner Eli Saslow spoke to a large
assembly of high schoolers at nearby Dripping Springs High School. Watch a brief
recap here.

News November 6, 2023


PULITZER BOARD ALLOWS BROADCAST MEDIA SITES TO ENTER JOURNALISM PRIZES

The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to expand eligibility for its journalism
awards to digital news sites operated by broadcast and audio organizations.
Entries from these organizations should rely essentially on written journalism. 

News October 20, 2023


THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE AWARDS CEREMONY

The 2023 class of Pulitzer Prize winners gathered at Columbia University's Low
Library on October 19 for a ceremony celebrating their awards.

News September 12, 2023


PULITZER PRIZE BOARD AMENDING CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENT IN BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC

The new eligibility criterion permits authors and musicians to enter their work
if they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents of the United States, or if the
United States has been their longtime primary home.

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Quote of the Day: “We drove all night and we arrived right before the bombs
started to fall.”
2023 Public Service named contributor Mstyslav Chernov discusses The Associated
Press‘ award-winning coverage of the siege of Mariupol with Pulitzer Board
member Nancy Barnes in this week's episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast.
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News April 1, 2024


PULITZER ON THE ROAD PODCAST: EPISODE 2: “WAR IN MARIUPOL”

Mstyslav Chernov and two other Associated Press journalists arrived in Mariupol
hours before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, becoming the only international
journalists to remain in the city during its siege. Their reporting allowed the
world to see horrors that otherwise would not have been captured. Chernov and
his colleagues’ coverage of Mariupol, along with other stories documenting the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, won The Associated Press the 2023 Public Service
Prize.

News March 25, 2024


PULITZER ON THE ROAD PODCAST: EPISODE 1: “SMALL TOWN SHAKEDOWN”

In the first episode of the Pulitzer on the Road Podcast, we head to Brookside,
Alabama, where 2023 Local Reporting winners John Archibald and Ashley Remkus
revisit their reporting about police corruption in this small municipality.
They’re joined by Pulitzer Board Co-Chair Neil Brown of the Poynter Institute.


FOR THE RECORD

Gershkovich Marks One Year in Russian Prison: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan
Gershkovich has now spent one year of wrongful detainment in a Russian prison,
Sara Fischer of Axios reported Friday. Gershkovich "is the first U.S. journalist
to be arrested and held on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War," Fischer
added. "The 32-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested on March 29, 2023 for
espionage charges that both he and The Journal vehemently deny. His arrest has
sparked among press freedom activists who worry Russia is using his detainment
as a bargaining chip with the U.S. over its war with Ukraine." Following a
Friday appearance at Moscow City Court, his "pre-trial detention was extended
this week for the fifth time, until at least June 30," Fischer continued.
Gershkovich's detention has coincided with increased enforcement of a "punitive
fake news law passed soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, [...] [making] it much
harder for the Western press to cover the war from Russia on the ground," she
wrote. Although Gershkovich's "wrongful detainee" designation has enabled the
U.S. State Department to transfer his case to a special division with hostage
resources, "efforts to release him and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who is
also being held on espionage charges, have come up short" despire
successful "negotiated prison swaps with Russia for former U.S. Marine Trevor
Reed and WNBA [player] Brittney Griner in recent years," Fischer continued. Wall
Street Journal Assistant Editor Paul Beckett (whose full-time portfolio
encompasses the Gershkovich case) has confirmed that "drumming up media
attention has been critical in ensuring [his] release remains a priority for the
government," adding: "If he's forgotten — if he slips down the priority list —
then the vital things that do need to happen to bring them home won't happen."
As part of this work, Gershkovich's bank and email accounts have remained open,
according to Fischer. The Journal also "has assembled a slew of programs to call
attention to Gershkovich's case this weekend, including a global run across 12
cities, a 24-hour read-a-thon, [a] social media blitz" and a partially blank
Friday print front page symbolizing Gershkovich's lost work during the previous
year. Born in Princeton, N.J. in 1991 to Jewish immigrants who left the former
Soviet Union in 1979, Gershkovich received a degree in English and philosophy
from Bowdoin College in 2014. Following a 2016-17 stint with The New York Times,
he worked as a Russia-based journalist for The Moscow Times (2017-2020)
and Agence France-Presse (2020-2022) before joining The Journal in January 2022.
March 29, 2024, Axios
Assange Extradition Delayed in United Kingdom: The U.K.'s extradition of
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States "was put on hold on
Tuesday after London's High Court said the [U.S.] must provide assurances he
would not face the death penalty," according to a report by Michael Holden and
Sam Tobin of Reuters. They continued: "U.S. prosecutors are seeking to put
Assange, 52, on trial on 18 counts, all bar one under the Espionage Act, over
WikiLeaks' release of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic
cables. After Britain gave the go-ahead for his extradition last year, Assange's
lawyers in February launched a final attempt in the English courts to challenge
that decision. In their written ruling, which Assange's wife Stella described as
'utterly bizarre,' two senior judges provisionally gave him permission to launch
a full appeal against extradition on three grounds, but only if the U.S. failed
to provide 'satisfactory assurances' to the issues raised. These were that
Australian-born Assange arguably would not be entitled to rely on the First
Amendment right to free speech as a non-U.S. national and, while none of the
existing charges carried the death penalty, he could later face a capital
offense such as treason, meaning it would be unlawful to extradite him." They
continued: "The judges invited the U.S. authorities to provide assurances on
these matters, saying if they were not forthcoming by April 16, then Assange
would be granted permission to appeal. However, they rejected his
lawyers' argument the case was politically motivated or that he would not
receive a fair trial. They also said his accusation that CIA officials had
planned to kidnap or murder him could not be considered should he be allowed an
appeal. A further hearing has been scheduled for May 20, with his extradition -
which his campaign team said could have been imminent depending on the ruling -
put on hold." Wikileaks "first came to prominence in 2010 when it published a
U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters in Baghdad that
killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff," Holden and Tobin
wrote. "It then released thousands of secret classified files and diplomatic
cables that laid bare often highly critical U.S. appraisals of world leaders
which the U.S. said imperilled the lives of their agents." The U.S. maintains
that Assange is being prosecuted "for the criminal act of conspiring with former
U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to unlawfully obtain [documents]"
rather than for the act of publication itself. The publisher/activist "has now
spent more than 13 years battling various legal cases in Britain, spending seven
of these holed up inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London after skipping bail
and the last five in a maximum security jail," prompting brother Gabriel
Shipton to allege that Assange is now suffering from "rapidly deteriorating
physical and mental health." Although Assange lawyer Jen Robinson remains
circumspect about the U.S.'s objectives, Nick Vamos (the "former head of
extradition at Britain's Crown Prosecution Service") said "it should be
straightforward for the U.S. to provide the guarantees." If the High Court
ultimately upholds the decision, Assange's only recourse is to appeal the
decision to the European Court of Human Rights.
March 26, 2024, Reuters
Newhouse Family to Profit From Reddit Windfall: The Newhouse family (which
controls Condé Nast and myriad other publications through its Advance
Publications holding company) may earn as much as $1.4 billion from the Thursday
initial public offering of Reddit on the New York Stock Exchange, according
to Michael M. Grynbaum and Mike Isaac of The New York Times. Condé Nast acquired
the social media site (whose minimalistic, "subreddit"-oriented interface
harkens back to the interest-oriented Usenet newsgroups and bulletin board
systems that presaged the contemporary internet) "for a mere $10 million in
2006, later spinning it out into a stand-alone company," Grynbaum and Isaac
added. They continued: "With its anarchic culture of amateur commenters, Reddit
is a far cry from the meticulously curated guides to haute living in the Condé
Nast stable. But its public offering will reward an early and prescient bet on
the company by the Newhouses, who own roughly one-third of the outstanding
shares. Advance, which also has major stakes in Charter Communications and
Warner Bros. Discovery, among other investments, is privately held, and its
finances are closely guarded. It is uncertain whether Condé Nast itself would
benefit from the value of the Reddit stock; representatives declined to comment.
Both Charter and Warner Bros. have seen significant dips in their stock price
over the past year." Under a lockup period, Advance will be prohibited from
selling its stake (in excess of 42 million shares) for six months. "In a sense,
the Newhouses’ prospective windfall is in keeping with a business strategy set
by the family’s patriarch, Samuel I. Newhouse, a real-life Horatio Alger who
rose from poverty to create one of the country’s richest media dynasties,"
Grynbaum and Isaac wrote. "Newhouse, who founded Advance in 1922, was an early
specialist in distressed assets, buying up struggling newspapers at cut-rate
prices and turning them into profit makers. Condé Nast itself was a fading
grande dame when Newhouse bought the publisher in 1959, sensing opportunity in
fashion magazines." Employees of the media company are currently bracing for
additional layoffs amid an ongoing dispute with its union, stagnant advertising
revenue and the recent reclassification of once-au courant music news site
Pitchfork under the aegis of GQ. (Pulitzer Prize Board member David Remnick is
the editor of The New Yorker, a Condé Nast publication. Two-time Pulitzer winner
John Archibald, a columnist for the Advance-owned al.com, will be featured next
week in a live event and podcast under the Pulitzer on the Road imprimatur.)
March 21, 2024, The New York Times
Gannett to Drop Associated Press Articles Across All Publications: Newspaper
publisher Gannett "will stop using the Associated Press' content starting next
week, a significant blow to the not-for-profit wire service collective that
still relies heavily on its premium memberships," Natalie Korach of The Wire
reported Tuesday. According to an internal memo from Chief Content Officer
Kristin Roberts, a past Pulitzer juror, the decision will eliminate "AP
dispatches, photos and video" from all of Gannett's publications. "We create
more journalism every day than the AP," Roberts wrote, adding that the cessation
of the institutional subscription "will give us the opportunity to redeploy more
dollars toward our teams and build capacity where we might have gaps." The
decision "ends a deep and decades-long relationship between the world’s largest
news organization and the publisher of what would become – and still is – the
nation's most widely distributed print newspaper" in USA Today, Korach added.
"For years, editors at the AP generated items for USA Today’s famous 'News From
Around Our 50 States' page; AP news, reviews and photos have been a staple in
Gannett-owned local morning and afternoon editions for generations." An AP
spokesperson said that the news organization was "shocked and disappointed to
see this memo [...] Our conversations with Gannett have been productive and are
ongoing. We remain hopeful Gannett will continue to support the AP beyond the
end of their membership term at the end of 2024, as they have done for over a
century." In a statement, Gannett said that the decision "enables us to invest
further in our newsrooms and leverage our incredible USA Today Network of more
than 200 newsrooms across the nation as well USA Today to reach and engage more
readers, viewers and listeners." Gannett's local publications include the
Detroit Free Press, The Indianapolis Star and the Democrat and Chronicle of
Rochester, New York.
March 19, 2024, The Wrap
Domestic Book Ban Attempts Accelerated in 2023: In 2023, 4,240 discrete
books "were targeted for removal from libraries, up from 2,571 titles in 2022,
according to a report released Thursday" by the American Library Association,
Alexandra Alter of The New York Times reported this week. She added: "Those
figures likely fail to capture the full scale of book removals, as many go
unreported. The American Library Association, which has tracked book bans for
more than 20 years, compiles data from book challenges that library
professionals reported to the group and information gathered from news reports.
[...] The stark rise in book challenges comes as libraries around the United
States have emerged as a battleground in a culture war over what constitutes
appropriate reading material. While book bans aren’t new, censorship efforts
have become increasingly organized and politicized, with the rise of
conservative groups like Moms for Liberty and Utah Parents United, which
encourage their members to file complaints about books they deem inappropriate
and have lobbied for legislation that regulates the content of library
collections." Emily Drabinski, the group's president, said that she "[wakes] up
every morning hoping this is over [...] What I find striking is that this is
still happening, and it's happening with more intensity." Alter continued: "Some
librarians and free speech advocacy groups are also alarmed by the rise in book
removals and challenges at public libraries. Book challenges at public libraries
rose by 92 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year, totaling 1,761
individual titles. In school libraries, challenges rose by 11 percent, according
to the report." In contrast to previous ban attempts, "librarians and school
districts are now seeing more complaints that demand the removal of multiple
titles, sometimes dozens or even hundreds of books," according to the report.
Nearly 50 percent of the books that elicited challenges "feature L.G.B.T.Q.
characters, or deal with race and racism," the report continued; these include
such titles as John Green's "Looking for Alaska" and Maia Kobabe's "Gender
Queer." Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual
Freedom, has remained sanguine about the future of librarianship despite the
findings. "My sincere hope is that we aren't talking about this in a year, that
we'll see a growing understanding that libraries need to serve everyone.
There's always going to be books on the shelves that we might not agree with,
but they're there for another reader."
March 15, 2024, The New York Times
Public Forced to Absorb Costs of Increased Local Government Secrecy: A new
report by Stephanie Sugars of the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (a project of
the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Committee to Protect
Journalists) explores how local taxpayers are often forced to shoulder the
financial burdens (most notably legal bills) related to public requests for
heretofore undisclosed information. "Case in point: In November 2023, the
residents of San Jose, California, were forced to finance a $500,000 payment to
the San José Spotlight, a nonprofit newsroom, after it prevailed in its public
records lawsuit against the city and former Mayor Sam Liccardo," Sugars
wrote. "A Santa Clara County judge found that Liccardo — who is now campaigning
for a U.S. congressional seat — used private emails and text messages for city
business in order to shield the communications from disclosure. The judge
ordered the city to release hundreds of pages of improperly withheld records and
pay the outlet's attorneys fees. But, Spotlight co-founder and CEO Ramona
Giwargis said, it's community members, not the public officials, who are paying
the price." In an interview, Giwargis continued: "I heard from a lot of
residents later saying that this is unfair. Taxpayers are on the hook now for
half a million dollars because city officials didn’t follow the law." According
to Sugars, "more than $1.6 million in attorneys fees — from coffers filled by
taxpayers — was awarded to journalists and news outlets suing state and local
officials for public records access" in the past year. For example, the
Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette received $180,000 in municipal funds early
last year "to cover attorneys fees following a county Superior Court
judge's ruling that the city had illegally withheld records concerning police
misconduct investigations," while "residents of Las Vegas, Nevada underwrote the
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's $620,000 in payments to the Las Vegas
Review-Journal" last month "following two separate rulings from the Nevada
Supreme Court that the department had violated" Nevada's public records law. "It
is a shame that governmental entities so often spend public money to fight
against transparency when in the end it is taxpayers who are forced to foot the
bill," said Ben Lipman, the Review-Journal's chief legal officer. "For each of
these awards, journalists or news organizations first sued for access to public
records under the state's Freedom of Information, or Sunshine, law," Sugars
added. "A court then determined that officials had wrongfully withheld public
records. The parties then reached a settlement or a judge awarded attorneys fees
and costs." David Cuillier, the director of the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of
Information Project, "wrote a 2019 report on public records access in the United
States using information gathered by MuckRock, a nonprofit news site that files
and shares public records requests at the state and federal levels." He "told
the Tracker that updated research showed the percentage of state and local
records requests fulfilled by government agencies dropped by more than half over
a 12-year period: from 63% in 2010 to 31% in 2022. The numbers varied widely
between states, he said, with fulfillment rates ranging from 67% in Washington
to just 10% in Alabama." He added: "The planets are aligning for a more
secretive universe, because as the government gets more adept at hiding things,
there are fewer people pushing back. With newsrooms shrinking and civil society
organizations going out of business, these forces that we had to protect
democracy and access to information are disappearing."
March 13, 2024, U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
'20 Days in Mariupol' Wins Academy Award: Mstyslav Chernov's "20 Days in
Mariupol," "a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday night,"
according to Lindsey Bahr and Christopher Weber of the Associated Press. "A
joint production of The Associated Press and PBS' 'Frontline,' statuettes were
awarded to Chernov, producer and editor Michelle Mizner and producer Raney
Aronson-Rath," a past Pulitzer juror in the Audio Reporting category, Bahr and
Weber added. "The Oscar — and nomination — was a first for both Chernov, an AP
video journalist, and the 178-year-old news organization. This was the third
nomination and first win for 'Frontline.'" Chernov, photographer Evgeniy
Maloletka and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko "arrived an hour before Russia began
bombing the port city" in 2022, Bahr and Weber continued. "Two weeks later, they
were the last journalists working for an international outlet in the city,
sending crucial dispatches to the outside world showing civilian casualties of
all ages, the digging of mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital and
the sheer extent of the devastation." In his acceptance speech, Chernov
reflected on the emotional toll of the war. "Probably I will be the first
director on this stage to say I wish I’d never made this film, I wish to be able
to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine," he said. "I wish for them
to release all the hostages, all the soldiers who are protecting their land, all
the civilians who are in their jails. We can make sure that the history record
is set straight and the truth will prevail, and that the people of Mariupol, and
those who have given their lives, will never be forgotten. Because cinema forms
memories and memories form history." The "work of Chernov, Maloletka, Stepanenko
and Lori Hinnant won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and featured
prominently that same year in" the AP's Breaking News Photography Prize-winning
portfolio, according to Bahr and Weber.
March 11, 2024, Associated Press
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2023 PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS

Biography - 2023
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage
(Viking)
A deeply researched and nuanced look at one of the most polarizing figures in
U.S. history that depicts the longtime FBI director in all his complexity, with
monumental achievements and crippling flaws.

Read More
Drama - 2023
English, by Sanaz Toossi
A quietly powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English
language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and
travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their
identities and also represent a new life. 

Read More
History - 2023
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, by Jefferson
Cowie (Basic Books)
A resonant account of an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries shaped by
settler colonialism and slavery, a portrait that illustrates the evolution of
white supremacy by drawing powerful connections between anti-government and
racist ideologies. 

Read More
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary - 2023
Mona Chalabi, contributor, The New York Times
For striking illustrations that combine statistical reporting with keen analysis
to help readers understand the immense wealth and economic power of Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos. 

Read More
Breaking News Photography - 2023
Photography Staff of Associated Press
For unique and urgent images from the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine, including the devastation of Mariupol after other news organizations
left, victims of the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the resilience of
the Ukrainian people who were able to flee.

Read More
Feature Photography - 2023
Christina House of the Los Angeles Times
For an intimate look into the life of a pregnant 22-year-old woman living on the
street in a tent–images that show her emotional vulnerability as she tries and
ultimately loses the struggle to raise her child

Read More
Fiction - 2023
Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and
ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a
complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.

Read More
Fiction - 2023
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
A masterful recasting of David Copperfield, narrated by an Appalachian boy whose
wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction,
institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.

Read More
Memoir or Autobiography - 2023
Stay True, by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful
friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the
presumed logic of our personal narratives. 

Read More
Poetry - 2023
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux)
A masterful collection that chronicles American culture as the country struggles
to make sense of its politics, of life in the wake of a pandemic, and of our
place in a changing global community.   

Read More
General Nonfiction - 2023
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with
police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but
whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown. (Moved by the Board
from the Biography category.)

Read More
Music - 2023
Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels
Premiered on May 27, 2022 at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C., an
innovative and compelling opera about enslaved people brought to North America
from Muslim countries, a musical work that respectfully represents African as
well as African American traditions, expanding the language of the operatic form
while conveying the humanity of those condemned to bondage.

Read More



2023 PRIZE WINNERS

JOURNALISM

Public Service

ASSOCIATED PRESS, FOR THE WORK OF MSTYSLAV CHERNOV, EVGENIY MALOLETKA, VASILISA
STEPANENKO AND LORI HINNANT

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STAFF OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Investigative Reporting

STAFF OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Explanatory Reporting

CAITLIN DICKERSON OF THE ATLANTIC

Local Reporting

ANNA WOLFE OF MISSISSIPPI TODAY, RIDGELAND, MISS.

JOHN ARCHIBALD, ASHLEY REMKUS, RAMSEY ARCHIBALD AND CHALLEN STEPHENS OF AL.COM,
BIRMINGHAM

National Reporting

CAROLINE KITCHENER OF THE WASHINGTON POST

International Reporting

STAFF OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

Feature Writing

ELI SASLOW OF THE WASHINGTON POST

Commentary

KYLE WHITMIRE OF AL.COM, BIRMINGHAM

Criticism

ANDREA LONG CHU OF NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Editorial Writing

MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD, FOR A SERIES WRITTEN BY AMY DRISCOLL

Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

MONA CHALABI, CONTRIBUTOR, THE NEW YORK TIMES

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PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

Feature Photography

CHRISTINA HOUSE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

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STAFF OF GIMLET MEDIA, NOTABLY CONNIE WALKER

BOOKS, DRAMA & MUSIC

Drama

ENGLISH, BY SANAZ TOOSSI

Fiction

TRUST, BY HERNAN DIAZ (RIVERHEAD BOOKS)

DEMON COPPERHEAD, BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER (HARPER)

History

FREEDOM’S DOMINION: A SAGA OF WHITE RESISTANCE TO FEDERAL POWER, BY JEFFERSON
COWIE (BASIC BOOKS)

Biography

G-MAN: J. EDGAR HOOVER AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY, BY BEVERLY GAGE
(VIKING)

General Nonfiction

HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD: ONE MAN’S LIFE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, BY
ROBERT SAMUELS AND TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA (VIKING)

Poetry

THEN THE WAR: AND SELECTED POEMS, 2007-2020, BY CARL PHILLIPS (FARRAR, STRAUS
AND GIROUX)

Music

OMAR, BY RHIANNON GIDDENS AND MICHAEL ABELS

Memoir or Autobiography

STAY TRUE, BY HUA HSU (DOUBLEDAY)

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