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Feminism play Liberation and first world war novel Angel Down among Pulitzer winners

4 May 2026 at 20:23

This year’s winners also include Jill Lepore’s book on the constitution and Brian Goldstone’s on housing insecurity

Pulitzer prize officials awarded the fiction award to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for Angel Down, a first world war narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. Liberation, Bess Wohl’s look back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s, received the drama prize.

Winners announced on Monday included two books rooted in the founding of the US. Jill Lepore’s We the People: A History of the US Constitution won for history, and Amanda Vaill’s Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution was the winner for biography.

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RK, Sharma, Pearson Win 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary

By: D. D. Degg

4 May 2026 at 20:03

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of the 2026 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary award. And the Pulitzer goes to Anand RK (Radhakrishnan) and Suparna Sharma and Natalie Obiku Pearson of Bloomberg… …For “trAPPed,” [link added] a riveting account of a neurologist in India held under “digital arrest” by her phone, reporting that uses visuals […]