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Pulitzer Prize 2023

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize went to G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage (Biography) and Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie (History). 6 books were finalists across 2 categories.

Winners

Biography

  1. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gagesource (opens in a new tab)

History

  1. Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowiesource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Biography

  1. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipasource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer Homanssource (opens in a new tab)

History

  1. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgensource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graffsource (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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