This year’s fiction prize went to Colson Whitehead for The Nickel Boys, a harrowing exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida. This win makes him one of only four novelists (Booth Tarkington in 1919 and 1922; William Faulkner in 1955 and 1963; John Updike in 1982 and 1991) to win the Pulitzer twice. His novel The Underground Railroad won the award in 2017.
— The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) May 4, 2020 Below is a list of winners in fiction, biography, poetry, and general nonfiction. A full list of winners in all categories can be found here. Fiction: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Biography: Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser Poetry: The Tradition by Jericho Brown General nonfiction: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer and The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin Additional reading on the Pulitzer Prize: Announcing the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners Get to Know 5 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Critics
