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Pulitzer Prizes 2026: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
Pulitzer Prizes 2026 winners include Daniel Kraus for Fiction for Angel Down and Bess Wohl for Drama for Liberation, with Jill Lepore winning History for We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution and Amanda Vaill for Biography, among others. The NYT confirms the winners list and notes Lepore’s history prize and Kraus’s fiction prize; PBS adds the full slate of winners across categories, including Yiyun Li for memoir-autobiography Things in Nature Merely Grow and Brian Goldstone for General Nonfiction There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. All sources emphasize the same core awards, with cross-source agreement on the principal winners and categories.
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Pulitzer Prizes: 2026 Winners List
Here is the full list of winners and finalists.
Pulitzer Prizes 2026: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
“We the People,” by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for “Angel Down.”
Daniel Kraus' 'Angel Down' and Bess Wohl's 'Liberation' are among Pulitzer winners in the arts
Hillel Italie, Associated Press Hillel Italie, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize officials awarded the fiction prize to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for "Angel Down," a World War I narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. "Liberation,".
Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners
Culture Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners May 4, 2026 4:00 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By Anastasia Tsioulcas , Neda Ulaby Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners Listen · 2:53 2:53 Transcript Download Embed "> < iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5803483/nx-s1-9756284".