The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Friday afternoon, with Louise Erdrich winning the fiction prize for The Night Watchman. The rest of the winners and finalists:
Fiction
The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Finalists
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, by Daniel Mason (Little, Brown)
Telephone, by Percival Everett (Graywolf)
History
Franchise, Marcia Chatelain (Liveright)
Finalists
The Deviant’s War, by Eric Cervini (FSG)
The Three-Cornered War, by Megan Kate Nelson (Scribner)
Biography
The Dead Are Arising, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright)
Finalists
Red Comet, by Heather Clark (Knopf)
Stranger in the Shogun’s City, by Amy Stanley (Scribner)
Nonfiction
Wilmington’s Lie, by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly)
Finalists
Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong (One World)
Yellow Bird, by Sierra Crane Murdoch (Random House)
Poetry
Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf)
Finalists
A Treatise on Stars, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (New Directions)
In the Lateness of the World, by Carolyn Forché (Penguin Press)
Drama
The Hot Wing King, Katori Hall
Finalists
Circle Jerk, by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
Stew, by Zora Howard