Richard Powers Wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

April 15, 2019 | 15 books mentioned 2

Richard Powers’s novel The Overstory was awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

In a starred review, Kirkus called the book “a magnificent achievement: a novel that is, by turns, both optimistic and fatalistic, idealistic without being naïve.”

Here’s a sampling of this year’s Pulitzer winners and finalists, with bonus links where available.

Fiction:

Drama:

History:

Biography:

Poetry:

General Nonfiction:

Winners and finalists in other categories are available at the Pulitzer website.

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