Pulitzer Prize Winners

Started in 1917, the Pulitzer Prize is presented annually by a twenty-member board with twenty-one category awards. This annotated list covers the last seven years of the Biography or Autobiography, General Nonfiction, History, and Fiction categories.

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ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
Artist/Author/Cast:
Doerr, Anthony
Call Number:
F Doerr
Description:

(Fiction, 2015) Two youths, a blind French girl and a radio-repairing German boy, cross paths in occupied France during World War II.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Artist/Author/Cast:
Meacham, Jon
Call Number:
92 Jackson 2008
Description:
(Biography or Autobiography, 2009) The complex life of President Jackson, everything from his fierce loyalty ordinary citizens to his rejection of Native American land rights, is portrayed in this work.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Artist/Author/Cast:
Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J.
Call Number:
92 Oppenheimer 2005
Description:
(Biography or Autobiography, 2006) The authors examine the life of the father of the atomic bomb and illustrate his roles in the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.
Amity and prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America
Artist/Author/Cast:
Griswold, Eliza
Call Number:
363.73 G8713a 2018
Description:

(General Nonfiction, 2019) A classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate fracking.

BARBARIAN DAYS: A SURFING LIFE
Artist/Author/Cast:
Finnegan, William
Call Number:
797.32092 F5144b 2015
Description:

(Biography or Autobiography, 2016) Journalist and The New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan details his life growing up in the unfamiliar and explosive surfing cultures around the world.

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Artist/Author/Cast:
Reiss, Tom
Call Number:
92 Dumas 2012
Description:

(Biography or Autobiography, 2013) This biography reveals how the true inspiration behind Alexandre Dumas’ most popular and classic novels was the life of his father.

BLACK FLAGS: THE RISE OF ISIS
Artist/Author/Cast:
Warrick, Joby
Call Number:
956.054 W2955b 2015
Description:

(Nonfiction, 2016) Washington Post journalist Joby Warrick narrates the beginnings in a Jordanian prison and rise of the modern Islamic extremist group.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Artist/Author/Cast:
Díaz, Junot
Call Number:
F Díaz
Description:

(Fiction, 2008) Oscar is an overweight Dominican/American and self-proclaimed geek whose goals are to become the next great fantasy author and to find true love.

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Artist/Author/Cast:
Rembert, Winfred
Call Number:
759.13 R3852c 2021
Description:

(Biography or Autobiography, 2022) The late Black artist tells his life story via his words and powerful works of visual art.

Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Artist/Author/Cast:
Eustace, Nicole
Call Number:
364.152 E913c 2021
Description:

(History, 2022) A complex tale of a now-forgotten crime that shaped Native-White relations in the British Colonies of North America.

Cuba: An American History
Artist/Author/Cast:
Ferrer, Ada
Call Number:
972.91 F3853c 2021
Description:

(History, 2022) A fluid history of the inextricable link between Cuba and the U.S., well rendered by a veteran Cuban American historian.

CUSTER'S TRIALS: A LIFE ON THE FRONTIER OF A NEW AMERICA
Artist/Author/Cast:
Stiles, T. J.
Call Number:
92 Custer 2015
Description:

(History, 2016) Biographer T. J. Stiles sheds new and defining light on the historical figure of United States Army officer George Armstrong Custer.

The Dead Are Arising : The Life of Malcolm X
Artist/Author/Cast:
Payne, Les
Call Number:
320.546092 P3465d 2020
Description:

(Nonfiction, 2020) An epic biography of Malcolm X, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative.

Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
Artist/Author/Cast:
Hoffman, David
Call Number:
909.825 H6993d 2009
Description:
(General Nonfiction, 2010) This title chronicles the events that led to the end of the Cold War, through interviews and classified government documents.
Demon Copperhead
Artist/Author/Cast:
Kingsolver, Barbara
Call Number:
F Kingsolver
Description:

(Fiction, 2023) A boy born with no assets beyond his dead father's copper-colored hair and a fierce talent for survival.

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Artist/Author/Cast:
King, Gilbert
Call Number:
305.896 K528d 2012
Description:

(Nonfiction, 2013) When a group of four young blacks are accused of a vicious crime, NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall vows to bring them justice.

Eden`s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Artist/Author/Cast:
Matteson, John
Call Number:
92 Alcott 2007
Description:
(Biography or Autobiography, 2008) The tense yet affectionate relationship between writer Louisa May Alcott and her father, the teacher and close companion of Emerson and Thoreau, is told in this work.
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
Artist/Author/Cast:
Logevall, Frederik
Call Number:
959.7041 L8323e 2012
Description:

(History, 2013) Through recently uncovered documents, the author details the beginnings of the Vietnam War and sheds light on the reasons why the United States became involved.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Artist/Author/Cast:
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Call Number:
616.994 M9538e 2010
Description:

(General Nonfiction, 2011) Science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee explores the long and complex history of cancer from thousands of years ago to the present day.

ENCOUNTERS AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD: A HISTORY OF THE MANDAN PEOPLE
Artist/Author/Cast:
Fenn, Elizabeth A.
Call Number:
305.897 F3343e 2014
Description:

(History, 2015) Fenn’s research on the little-known Mandan Indians of the upper Missouri River sheds important light on this historically significant people.

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