This past Friday, the winners of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize were announced via a virtual ceremony. This year, many books about underrepresented people were honored during the ceremony. Here is a list of winners and finalist in the books category:
Fiction
Winner
The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Finalists
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, by Daniel Mason (Little, Brown and Company)
Telephone, by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
History
Winner
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton)
Finalists
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, by Eric Cervini (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, by Megan Kate Nelson (Scribner)
Biography
Winner
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright/Norton)
Finalists
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark (Alfred A. Knopf)
Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by Amy Stanley (Scribner)
Poetry
Winner
Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf Press)
Finalists
A Treatise on Stars, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (New Directions)
In the Lateness of the World, by Carolyn Forché (Penguin Press)
General Nonfiction
Winner
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Finalists
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong (One World/Random House)
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country, by Sierra Crane Murdoch (Random House)