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The winners are: A fictional story about the Netanyahus A recasting of Hamlet in the American South The origin of a treaty in a conflict between early coloni
by devindotcom 4y ago
The winners are:
A fictional story about the Netanyahus
A recasting of Hamlet in the American South
The origin of a treaty in a conflict between early colonists and indigenous peoples & A 500-year history of Cuba (tie)
Biography of a man living in the Jim Crow era
Poems about working class life in the Rust Belt
Book-length nonfiction about growing up homeless and poor
And there are plenty of counter-examples in the runners up too. It's not even close to every single book. There are other things to talk about, and talking about them won Pulitzers.
- cato_the_elder 4y ago@colechristensen is mostly correct, let's look at the descriptions in the announcement for the first three books you mentioned. The Netanyahus: "historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience" Fat Ham: "grapple[s] with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty" Covered with Nigh: "A gripping account of Indigenous justice" And for the rest, I think the description you provided hints that collective identity is an important element of the books. (except perhaps for "Cuba: An American History" and "Invisible Child")