The winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced and it looks let the winners knocked it out of the park. Best fiction was won by The Overstory by Richard Powers, drama was won by Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, biography by The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey Stewart, and nonfiction was won by Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold. The awards represent strength of diversity for the winner, with the books covering black history, the American Dream, the fracturing of ideals, activism, and more. Further awards included prizes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Here is the full list of winners:
Editorial cartooning
Darrin Bell, a freelance cartoonist
Breaking-news photography
Photography staff of Reuters
Feature photography
Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post
Special citation
Staff of the Capital Gazette
BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC
Fiction
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Drama
Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
History
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Biography or autobiography
The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Poetry
“Be With” by Forrest Gander
General nonfiction
“Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza Griswold
Music
“p r i s m” by Ellen Reid
Special citation
Aretha Franklin
Congratulations to all the winners!
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