2024 Pulitzer Prize
The 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2023 calendar year on May 6, 2024.
Prizes
Winners and finalists for the prizes are listed below, with the winners marked in bold.Journalism
| Breaking News Reporting |
| Staff of Lookout Santa Cruz, California, "for its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses." |
| Staff of the Honolulu Civil Beat, "for its distinctive, sweeping and urgent coverage of the Maui wildfires that killed more than 100 people and left a historic town in ruins, reporting that held officials to account and chronicled the aftermath and efforts to rebuild." |
| Staff of the Los Angeles Times, "for urgent and thoughtful coverage of a Lunar New Year overnight shooting that left 11 senior citizens dead, demonstrating clear knowledge of and commitment to the local Asian communities." |
| Explanatory Reporting |
| Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker, "for a searing indictment of our legal system’s reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often devastating for communities of color." |
| Staff of Bloomberg, "for rigorous, far-reaching reporting that holds corporate water profiteers to account and exposes how they willfully exacerbate the effects of climate change at the expense of less powerful communities." |
| Staffs of The Texas Tribune, ProPublica, and FRONTLINE, "for advancing understanding of law enforcement’s catastrophic response to the mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school and also for documenting the political and policy shortcomings that have led to similar deadly police failures across the country." |
| National Reporting |
| Staff of Reuters, "for an eye-opening series of accountability stories focused on Elon Musk’s automobile and aerospace businesses, stories that displayed remarkable breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his companies’ practices in Europe and the United States." Staff of The Washington Post, "for its sobering examination of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which forced readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon often used for mass shootings in America." |
| Bianca Vázquez Toness and Sharon Lurye of the Associated Press, "for a deeply reported series on the corrosive effect of the pandemic on public education, highlighting the staggering number of students missing from classrooms across America." |
| Dave Philipps of The New York Times, "for groundbreaking reporting that uncovered a pattern of traumatic brain injuries among U.S. troops from blast exposures caused by the weapons they were firing." |
| Feature Writing |
| Katie Engelhart, contributing writer, The New York Times, "for her fair-minded portrait of a family’s legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch’s progressive dementia that sensitively probes the mystery of a person’s essential self." |
| Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic, "for her exquisitely rendered account of her disabled aunt, who was institutionalized as a small child, and the lasting effects on her family, told in the context of present-day care and intervention that make different outcomes possible." |
| Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project, "for her insightful, humane portrait, reported with great difficulty, of men on Death Row in Texas who play clandestine games of “Dungeons & Dragons,” countering their extreme isolation with elaborate fantasy. " |
| Criticism |
| Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times, "for richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience." |
| Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker, "for theater reviews that reflect a formidable knowledge of the stage and the mechanics of performance along with canny observations on the human condition." |
| Zadie Smith, contributor, The New York Review of Books, "for a review of the film “Tár” that addressed with wit and ease such consequential themes as mortality and the clash of generations." |
| Illustrated Reporting and Commentary |
| Medar de la Cruz, contributor, The New Yorker, "for his visually-driven story set inside Rikers Island jail using bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners and staff through their hunger for books." |
| Angie Wang, contributor, The New Yorker, "for a vivid illustrated journey with her toddler that explains how human language learning can never be supplanted by AI." |
| Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca and Ren Galeno, contributor, of The Washington Post, "for masterful and sensitive use of the comic form to reveal the story of a great injustice to a group of Filipinos exhibited at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, where some of them died." |
| Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, "for a portfolio of deceptively gentle, mostly wordless cartoons full of juxtapositions that ably communicate complex, sophisticated messages." |
| Feature Photography |
| Photography Staff of Associated Press, "for poignant photographs chronicling unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the United States." |
| Hannah Reyes Morales, contributor, The New York Times, "for a creative series of photographs documenting a “youthquake” occurring in Africa where, by 2050, the continent will account for one-quarter of the world's population and one-third of its young people." |
| Nanna Heitmann, contributor, The New York Times, "for illuminating photographs portraying a generation living under President Vladimir Putin’s resurgent nationalism while Russia is at war in Ukraine." |
Letters, drama, and music
| Drama |
| Primary Trust by Eboni Booth |
| Here There Are Blueberries by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich |
| Public Obscenities by Shayok Misha Chowdhury |
| History |
| No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones |
| Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion by Elliott West |
| American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Michael Willrich |
| Biography |
| King: A Life by Jonathan Eig |
| Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo |
| Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty |
| Memoir or Autobiography |
| Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza |
| The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland |
| The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen |
| Poetry |
| Tripas: Poems, by Brandon Som |
| To 2040, by Jorie Graham |
| Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff |
| General Nonfiction |
| A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, by Nathan Thrall |
| Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World, by John Vaillant |
| Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, by Siddharth Kara |
| Music |
| Adagio , by Tyshawn Sorey |
| Double Concerto for esperanza spalding, Claire Chase and large orchestra, by Felipe Lara |
| Paper Pianos, by Mary Kouyoumdjian |