BIPOC Pulitzer Prize Book Winners
The Pulitzer Prize is an annual award, with awards presented in the categories of Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, General Nonfiction, and Music.
This page lists Pulitzer Prize winners written by Black, Indigenous, and other authors of color across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and history.
- History, Nonfiction, US History
- Publication Year: 2024
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. Most Americans...
- by Tessa Hulls
- Graphic Novels, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of...
- American Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2024
James is a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she...
- by Ilyon Woo
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
“A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting...
- by Hua Hsu
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken,...
- by Brandon Som
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2023
With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who...
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Discrimination and Racism, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina,...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War. Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing...
- by Hernan Diaz
- Family Life, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the...
- History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2020
From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Often blamed for the rising...
- by Natalie Diaz
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2020
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s...
- Biographies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2020
An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2020
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota...
- Black Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2019
This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida....
- by Hisham Matar
- Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2016
The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing. When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing under mysterious...
- Black Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2016
A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation...
- Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense, War Fiction
- Publication Year: 2015
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, a startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist...
- Health, Nonfiction, Science
- Publication Year: 2010
A magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The...
Locking Up Our Own
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand...