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2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The literary award that everyone eagerly awaits each year has announced its winners, and we couldn’t be more excited to tell you about these amazing titles that have won in the categories of biography, general nonfiction, history, poetry, and fiction. These are all books that will linger in your memory for years after you’ve finished reading them, so without further ado, congratulations to the following winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes!
Biography Winner
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly
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A uniquely vivid memoir combining a powerful narrative with eye-popping art, tracing the arc of a life that stretches from Jim Crow Georgia to Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. Winfred Rembert’s telling of his long journey through poverty, prison, and a near-miss death at the hands of a mob, finding his way through love to truthful witness is raw, exultant and riveting. The presence of a bracing spirit resonates on every page. If you love deep storytelling, history and great art, do not miss out!
“Rembert’s art expresses the legacy of slavery, the trauma of lynching, and the anguish of racial hierarchy and white supremacy while illuminating a resolve to fight oppression and injustice. He has the ability to reveal truths about the human struggle that are transcendent, to evoke an understanding of human dignity that is broad and universal.” – Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy
General Nonfiction Winner
We have another Pulitzer Prize Winner for Andrea Elliott, and this one spans eight years of Dasani’s life. Get swept up in Dasani’s childhood as Elliott also intertwines it with the history of Dasani’s ancestors. This story of resilience, the effects of poverty, and the importance of family will keep you riveted all the way through. We also highly recommend listening to Andrea Elliott discussing Invisible Child on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast.
“From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies
History Winners
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Nicole Eustace
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A true story about the ramifications of a single crime that reverberates through history to present day, this story of the killing of a Native American man in early America (1722) sheds a light on crime, punishment and the definition of justice. This book is one to read as it gives a rebuttal against the constant assumptions about “civilized” Europeans and “savage” Native Americans, showing the sophistication the Iroquois had in relation to the colonials.
“Listening keenly and insightfully to Native voices in colonial records, Nicole Eustace deftly recovers a revealing tale of murder and justice across a cultural frontier at a critical moment for the future of our continent. A great read and an important book.” — Alan Taylor
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In this comprehensive history of the relationship between Cuba and the United States by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba, readers gain an inside look at the evolution of the nation. It draws on over 30 years of extensive research and travel to the island in order to present the intimacy between the two countries (even though it’s often surprising and distressed) in a way that gives Americans insight into both the United States and Cuba.
“Ada Ferrer has written a sweeping, beautiful, and indispensable history of an endlessly fascinating country. Cuba captures the breadth and emotion of the story of a small country that has been at the center of so many major events shaping our world.” —Ben Rhodes, author of After the Fall: Being American in the World We Made
Poetry Winner
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Poetry fans will be delighted by this year’s poetry Pulitzer Prize winner. An intimate collection of sonnets, these poems reflect a life lived authentically and fully, and readers will find themselves moving alongside Diane Seuss through time, thought, and space as they experience the poems that frankly shine a light into Diane Seuss’s own life.
“The lightning intelligence of Diane Seuss’s poems strikes equally the lavish external world and the harrowed interior. A brilliant and devastating account of the making and survival of a poet, frank: sonnets has a relentless, lambent urgency; by its final pages I had to remind myself to breathe.” —Garth Greenwell
Fiction
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Joshua Cohen
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For a genre-bending story centering around a Jewish historian (who is not a historian of the Jews) as he finds himself the unexpected and reluctant host to guests, the family of an exiled Israeli scholar who’s applied to work at the same university. With elements of comedy and exploring themes like blending, identity, and politics, this book mixes fiction and nonfiction in a delightful way.
“Riffing freely on a true story, this brilliant and hilarious new book takes a cozily familiar form, the campus novel, and turns it into a slyly oblique fable about history, identity and the conflicted heart of Jewishness, especially in America.” —John Powers, Fresh Air