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Book Awards > Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize administration awards prizes across 21 categories in journalism, and the arts each year. Prizes are given for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition. The following books received the Pulizer Prize in 2020 for fiction, poetry, history, biography and general non fiction.
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020. Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segreg ...Show more
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She ...Show more
Sontag: Her Life (Susan Sontag) by Benjamin Moser
$75.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. "Susan Sontag lived a life of singular contradictions: an intellectual featured on Vanity Fair; gay but married to a man at 17; an independent thinker whose first book was published under her husband’s n ...Show more
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall. Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the founda ...Show more
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human ...Show more
The Undying A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cancer
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. A week after her forty-first birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic ...Show more
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