The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer, an Hungarian-born American who made a forture as a newspaper publisher.  Here are this year's winners and finalists in the category of Letters, Drama, and Music. 

Winnner for Fiction

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 

Finalists

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

Maud's Line  by Margaret Verble

 

 

 

Winner for Drama

Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Finalists

Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

The Humans by Stephen Karam

 

 

Winner for History

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles

Finalists

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War by Brian Matthew Jordan

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor  by James M. Scott

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of  DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen

 

Winner for Biography or Memoir

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

Finalists

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles

The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander 

 

 

 

Winner for Poetry

Ozone Journal  by Peter Balakian

Finalists

Alive: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Willis 

Four-Legged Girl  by Diane Seuss

 

 

 

Winner for General Nonfiction

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick

Finalists

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power

 

 

Winner for Music

In for a Penny, In for a Pound  by Henry Threadgill

Finalists

The Blind Banister by Timo Andres

The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor by Carter Pann