The 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists have been announced. Among the prize’s twenty-one winners in journalism and the arts, authors Forrest Gander, Eliza Griswold, and Richard Powers received awards for literary achievement in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, respectively. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize receive awards of $15,000 and a certificate marking their accomplishments.

Gander’s Be With (New Directions), an elegiac collection of poetry, was selected as the winner, and Gander is accompanied by authors Jos Charles and A. E. Stallings on the finalists list. The prize for fiction was awarded to Powers for his nature epic The Overstory (W. W. Norton). Finalists for the fiction prize were Rebecca Makkai and Tommy Orange. Griswold claimed the prize for general nonfiction for her story of class, Appalachia, and corporate fracking, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). She is accompanied by finalists Bernice Yeung and Elizabeth Rush.

Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes continue to recognize excellence in journalism, public service, and the arts. Multiple categories have been added to the list of awards by the Pulitzer Prize Board and now include music and photography. A full list of winners and finalists in all categories, as well as a video of Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy announcing the winners, can be found on the Pulitzer Prize website.

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