Five Nonfiction and Biography Books to Read This Summer
In the third installment of an occasional series, discover essential beach reading from Pulitzer-winning writers, biographers and scientists.
General Non-Fiction
2020 Pulitzer Prize Contest Open to Letters, Drama and Music Entries
A redesigned entry site features a questionnaire about entrants' work, and the ability for Drama and Music entrants to submit materials online.
Pulitzer-Winning Books on Black History
The Biography, History and General Nonfiction prize categories offer a variety of lenses through which to view race in the U.S. and African-American experiences.
Deadline for Letters Entries was October 1
The online entry form and payment mechanism closed at the deadline. Hard copies of books that accompany otherwise complete entries will be accepted until October 15.
Q&A: 2018 General Nonfiction Winner James Forman Jr.
'There is a lot of attention on the national government — on Trump now and Obama when he was president — that doesn’t reflect the national government’s lack of power to change things,' the 'Locking Up Our Own' author said.
Video: Watch 2018 Pulitzer winners in Letters, Drama and Music
We collected interviews, lectures and readings featuring the work of this year's Pulitzer winners in Letters, Drama and Music: Andrew Sean Greer, Martyna Majok, Jack E. Davis, Caroline Fraser, Frank Bidart, James Forman Jr. and Kendrick Lamar.
"I looked around": Joseph Lelyveld on South Africa
As part of our ongoing efforts to digitize our archive, read an excerpt from the venerable journalist's Prize-winning memoir of life in apartheid-era South Africa.
Video: Watch 2017 Pulitzer winners in Letters, Drama and Music
We collected interviews and performances featuring the work of this year's Pulitzer winners in Letters, Drama and Music: Lynn Nottage, Colson Whitehead, Heather Ann Thompson, Hisham Matar, Matthew Desmond, Tyehimba Jess and Du Yun.
2018 Pulitzer Prize contest open to Letters, Drama and Music entries
The Pulitzers currently are accepting entries in Fiction, Drama, History, Biography or Autobiograpy, Poetry, General Nonfiction and Music.
More than two dozen Pulitzer winners speak, read and perform at Harvard
The Nieman Foundation hosted the final Pulitzer Centennial Marquee event, commemorating 9/11 and addressing power and accountability
