The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday, and in the Drama category, at least, the winner was no surprise: Lin-Manuel Miranda took home the prize for Hamilton. Elmo, like most of us, would agree that this was very much deserved:
Elsewhere, Joby Warrick won in the General Non-Fiction category for Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates was a finalist) and Viet Thanh Nguyen won for Fiction for The Sympathizer.
Emily Nussbaum, television critic for the New Yorker, was also honored, and editor David Remnick’s cover letter for her nomination is a particularly lovely ode to what makes her work so singular. “In her ambition and scholarly depth, Nussbaum has brought a new rigor to TV criticism,” he writes. “But it’s her wit and her ability to convey why you should love a show as much as she does that makes her a joy to read.”
Check out the full list of winners below.
Journalism
Public Service, Associated Press
Breaking News Reporting, Los Angeles Times Staff
Investigative Reporting, Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Explanatory Reporting, T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of the Marshall Project
Local Reporting, Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick, and Lisa Gartner of the Tampa Bay Times
National Reporting, Washington Post Staff
International Reporting, Alissa J. Rubin of the New York Times
Feature Writing, Kathryn Schulz of the New Yorker
Commentary, Farah Stockman of the Boston Globe
Criticism, Emily Nussbaum of the New Yorker
Editorial Writing, John Hackworth of Sun Newspapers, Charlotte Harbor, Florida
Editorial Cartooning, Jack Ohman of the Sacramento Bee
Breaking News Photography, Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks, and Daniel Etter of the New York Times and Photography Staff of Thomson Reuters
Feature Photography, Jessica Rinaldi of the Boston Globe
Letters, Drama, and Music
Fiction, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Drama, Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
History, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles
Biography, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Poetry, Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
Nonfiction, Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
Music, In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill
