This week, Columbia University announces the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes, considered to be the highest national honor for journalism, literature, and musical composition.
Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for several categories of books, including fiction, nonfiction, history, biography, and memoir. Here are some of this year’s book winners:
Fiction
General Nonfiction
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
Finalists:
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala by Rachel Nolan
I Am On the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and The Rise of Autocracy in India by Rollo Romig
Memoir
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
Finalists:
Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante
History
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda Fields-Black
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
Biography
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
Finalists:
John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg
The World She Edited: Katherine S. White at The New Yorker by Amy Reading
English