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Pulitzer Prize 2021

The 2021 Pulitzer Prize went to The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Biography or Autobiography) and Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (History). 6 books were finalists across 2 categories.

Winners

Biography or Autobiography

  1. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Paynesource (opens in a new tab)

History

  1. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelainsource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Biography or Autobiography

  1. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clarksource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanleysource (opens in a new tab)

History

  1. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervinisource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelsonsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Pulitzer Prize

Winners and finalists from the pulitzer.org Biography and History category pages. The Biography category was named Biography or Autobiography through 2022; entries use the name in force that year. In 2016 the board moved Custer's Trials from Biography finalist to History winner; it appears in both, as pulitzer.org lists it.

Organization: Pulitzer Prizes. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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