Welcome to your Pulitzer Prize 2023 award-winner guide. We are especially pleased to see journalists in our home state of Alabama receive awards for Commentary and Local Reporting! Congratulations to every talented writer who had a story to tell, and is skilled enough to have the voice to tell it.

Fiction

• Winner - Hernan Diaz, Trust‍
• Winner - Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead (An Oprah's Book Club Pick)
• Finalist - Vauhini Vara, The Immortal King Rao

General Nonfiction

• Winner - Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd : One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
• Finalist - David George Haskell, Sounds Wild and Broken : Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
• Finalist - Linda Villarosa, Under the Skin : The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America
• Finalist - Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters : The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

History

• Winner - Jefferson Cowie, Freedom's Dominion : A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
• Finalist - Garrett M. Graff, Watergate : A New History
• Finalist - Michael John Witgen, Seeing Red : Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Biography

• Winner - Beverly Gage, G-Man : J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
• Finalist - Jennifer Homans, Mr. B : George Balanchine's 20th Century

Memoir

• Winner - Hua Hsu, Stay True
• Finalist - Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds
• Finalist - Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

Poetry

• Winner - Carl Phillips, Then the War : And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
• Finalist - Dg Nanouk Okpik, Blood Snow
• Finalist - Jay Hopler, Still Life

Commentary (from Alabama)

• Winner - Kyle Whitmire, State of Denial

Local Reporting (from Alabama)

• Winner - John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald & Challen Stephens, Brookside