On Monday, May 5, three Penguin Random House authors were honored with a Pulitzer Prize. Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious awards in American letters.
To date, PRH has 143 Pulitzer Prize winners, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Josh Steinbeck, Ron Chernow, Anne Applebaum, Colson Whitehead, and many more. Take a look at our 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists across genres!
Fiction
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Pulitzer Citation: An accomplished reconsideration of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ that gives agency to Jim to illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy and provide a new take on the search for family and freedom.
Biography
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts (Random House)
Pulitzer Citation: A beautifully written double biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon, 18th century contemporaries who devoted their lives to identifying and describing nature’s secrets, and who continue to influence how we understand the world.
History (Co-Winner)
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen Duval (Random House)
Pulitzer Citation: A panoramic portrait of Native American nations and communities over a thousand years, a vivid and accessible account of their endurance, ingenuity and achievement in the face of conflict and dispossession.
The Pulitzer judges also recognized as Finalists:
Fiction (Finalist)
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking)
Memoir or Autobiography (Finalist)
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante (Penguin Press)
General Nonfiction (Finalist)
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India by Rollo Romig (Penguin Books)
We’d also like to congratulate and acknowledge our authors who received Pulitzers in the following categories:
- Azam Ahmed, author of Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter and a Mother’s Quest for Justice (Random House Trade Paperback), awarded for Explanatory Reporting
- Mark Warren, co-author of The Good Fight: Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington (Berkley), awarded for Feature Writing
- Mosab Abu Toha, author of Forest of Noise: Poems (Knopf), awarded for Commentary
