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Congratulations to the book winners of the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes:
Fiction: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Harper). "A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community's efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination."
Fiction finalists: A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason (Little, Brown) and Telephone by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
History: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton). "A nuanced account of the complicated role the fast-food industry plays in African-American communities, a portrait of race and capitalism that masterfully illustrates how the fight for civil rights has been intertwined with the fate of Black businesses."
History finalists: The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson (Scribner)
Biography: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright/Norton). "A powerful and revelatory account of the civil rights activist, built from dozens of interviews, offering insight into his character, beliefs and the forces that shaped him."
Biography finalists: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (Knopf) and Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley (Scribner)
Poetry: Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf Press). "A collection of tender, heart-wrenching and defiant poems that explore what it means to love and be loved in an America beset by conflict."
Poetry finalists: A Treatise on Stars by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (New Directions) and In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché (Penguin Press)
General Nonfiction: Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly Press). "A gripping account of the overthrow of the elected government of a Black-majority North Carolina city after Reconstruction that untangles a complicated set of power dynamics cutting across race, class and gender."
General Nonfiction finalists: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World/Random House) and Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch (Random House)