Awards

The New York Times reports that Percival Everett’s novel James, which won the Pulitzer on Monday, was not among the jury’s top three picks, and was selected instead after the board had reached an impasse choosing among finalists. The finalists for the prize were Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot, Stacey Levine’s Mice 1961, and Gayl Jones’s The Unicorn Woman. The Times writes, “In a typical year, one of the three finalists is chosen. But when the 17 voting members of the board deliberated on the fiction finalists last Friday, none of the three choices received a majority vote.” The options at that […]

The winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday afternoon, with Percival Everett’s much-lauded JAMES winning the fiction prize. The complete list of winners and finalists: Fiction James, by Percival Everett (Doubleday) Finalists Headshot, by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking) Mice 1961, by Stacey Levine (Verse Chorus Press) The Unicorn Woman, by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press) General Nonfiction To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press) Finalists I Am on the Hit List, by Rollo Romig (Penguin Books) Until I Find You, by Rachel Nolan (Harvard University Press) History Combee, by Edda L. Fields-Black (Oxford […]