The 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winners have been announced with awards for Journalism and Books, Drama and Music. Let's take a look at the book award winners and finalists.
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Daniel Kraus was awarded the Pulitzer for his novel Angel Down - a story about World War I, told in a single sentence. Finalists were Katie Kitamura (Audition), and Torrey Peters (Stag Dance).
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Bess Wohl has won for Liberation, a play about at the legacy of feminist groups from the 1970s. r Finalists were Nazareth Hassan for Bowl EP and Talene Monahon for Meet the Cartesians.
The Pulitzer Prize for History
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Amanda Vail was recognised for her biography of the Schuyler Sisters in Pride and Pleasure: The Shuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution. Finalists were Lance Richardson for True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen and James McWilliams for The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford. 
The Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography
Yiyun Li won for Things in Nature Merely Grow - an account of the suicides of her sons. Finalists were Anelise Chen for Calm Down: A Metamorphosis, Sarah Chihaya for Bibliophobia: A Memoir and Hala Alyan for I'll Tell You When I am Home: A Memoir.
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Juliana Spahr was recognised for her collection of poetry Ars Poeticas. Finalists were I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always by Douglas Kearney and The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Smith.
The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Brian Goldstone won for There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Finalists were A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland and Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church by Kevin Sack.
Of all these Pulitzer Prize winning books, the one I am most interested in is the work by Jill Lepore on the history of the US Constitution.