Here are the Winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize

“A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way.”

Runners up:

Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen

Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff 

“A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today’s conservative political landscape.”

Runners up:

His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century by Jennifer Homans

“A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.”

Runners up:

Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

“Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.”

Runners up:

Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik

Still Life by Jay Hopler

“A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the story of how one man’s tragic experience brought about a global movement for change.”

Runners up:

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction by David George Haskell

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa