Sanaz Toossi’s play “English” won for drama. The Pulitzer for music was given to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for the opera “Omar,” about an Islamic scholar captured and sold into slavery. “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, won for general nonfiction, and Jefferson Cowie’s “Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power” was honored for history. It was the first major Hoover biography in decades and was cited by Pulitzer judges for its “deeply researched and nuanced look” at Hoover's “monumental achievements and crippling flaws,” including his persecution of the Rev.

Edgar Hoover, was given the Pulitzer for biography after previously receiving the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize from the New-York Historical Society. Beverly Gage’s “G-Man,” her widely acclaimed book on longtime FBI leader J.

Several works with racial themes were honored Monday. “I wanted to deal with class and money, and how money is really made.” “I wanted to talk about the process itself of the accumulation of wealth,” said Diaz, 49, whose debut novel “In the Distance” was a Pulitzer finalist. “Trust,” which begins with a novel-within-the novel about a financial tycoon and his daughter, explores how such a world is created. “Demon Copperhead” dramatizes life on the lower end of the extreme divide between rich and poor. “I couldn’t be happier (about the Pulitzer) for this reason.ĭiaz, also interviewed by phone, sees his book and Kingsolver's novel approaching a similar subject, class, from different perspectives. “I wrote this book for my people because we are so invisible to the rest of the world and so persistently misrepresented,” Kingsolver said.

Kingsolver is a longtime resident of Appalachia who currently lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia, and set “Demon Copperhead” close by. Speaking by phone Monday, the author said she regards the Pulitzer as an affirmation not just of her novel, but of a misunderstood and overlooked part of the country. The 68-year-old Kingsolver has long woven social issues into her novels, which also include “The Bean Trees” and the Winfrey choice “The Poisonwood Bible,” and helped establish the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Kingsolver’s novel, the story of a young boy’s struggles and persistence as he grows up in southern Appalachia, was chosen by Oprah Winfrey last fall for her book club and named by The Washington Post as a top release of 2022. “Trust” won the Kirkus Prize for fiction, was on the long list for the Booker Prize and was named by The New York Times and The Washington Post as one of the year’s best books.

Trust by hernan diaz