Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser (Biography). Locking Up Our Own by James Forman (General Nonfiction). Other winning books from this year’s Pulitzer Prizes include… The two finalists in the fiction category were Hernan Diaz ( In the Distance) and Elif Batuman ( The Idiot). The Pulitzer judges commented: ‘A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love.’ Less is a scintillating satire of the American abroad, and a bittersweet romance of chances loss. Throughout his travels, he will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. So when he’s invited to his ex-boyfriend’s wedding, he has no choice but to accept a series of other invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Wells - the journalist and suffragist who spent the 1890s documenting lynching in the United States.Andrew Sean Greer has been awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, Less.Īrthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn 50. The board also awarded a special citation to Ida B. The winning episode, " The Out Crowd," covered the impact on individuals of President Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policies. 
The other new twist was the inaugural award for audio reporting, which went to the staff of the public radio show and podcast, This American Life, along with Los Angeles Times reporter Molly O'Toole and Vice News freelance reporter Emily Green. "Despite relentless assaults on objective truth, coordinated efforts to undermine our nation's free press and persistent economic headwinds, journalists continue to pursue and deliver essential facts and truths to keep us safe and protect our democracy." "It goes without saying that today, we announce the Pulitzer winners in deeply trying times," said Dana Canedy, the administrator of the prizes, from her living room. First off, it was done remotely because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
There were a couple of firsts in this year's announcement of the winners of the Pulitzer Prize. Wells a special citation for her reporting on lynching. The Pulitzer Prize board awarded suffragist Ida B.
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