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Pulitzer Prize 2022

The 2022 Pulitzer Prize went to Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly (Biography or Autobiography) and Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace and Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer (History). 6 books were finalists across 2 categories.

Winners

Biography or Autobiography

  1. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kellysource (opens in a new tab)

History

  1. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustacesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrersource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Biography or Autobiography

  1. Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenithsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimurasource (opens in a new tab)

History

  1. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masursource (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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