Pulitzers 2024: Night Watch claims Fiction; Primary Trust shines in Drama

The Pulitzer Prize honors distinguished work in American arts and letters. Here are the 2024 winners across Letters, Drama & Music with quick pointers for deeper browsing.

Winners by category (2024):

• Fiction — Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips. A lyrical historical novel about recovery, caregiving, and the long echoes of war.
• Poetry — Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som. Polyphonic, place-rooted poems attentive to language, lineage, and labor.
• Biography — Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo. A propulsive account of an audacious escape and the lives built in its wake.
• Biography — King: A Life by Jonathan Eig. A capacious, deeply researched portrait that complicates received myth.
• Drama — Primary Trust by Eboni Booth. Gentle, wry, and piercing—about friendship, routine, and the courage to begin again.
• General Nonfiction — A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall. Intimate narrative journalism mapping policy onto a single day’s loss.
• History — No Right to an Honest Living by Jacqueline Jones. Ground-level economic history reframing labor and race in Civil War–era Boston.
• Memoir or Autobiography — Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza. An unsparing, formally inventive pursuit of justice and remembrance.
• Music — Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith) by Tyshawn Sorey. A contemplative work of sustained attention and timbral depth.

Browse the full year: Pulitzer winners in 2024. Compare across awards via the faceted browse.