Award-winning Books and Films
About This Award
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award.
Award Winning Books 2024
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Call Number: PQ7298.28.I8982 Z4613 2023ISBN: 9780593244098Memoir
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Call Number: DS119.76 .T488 2023ISBN: 9781250854971General Nonfiction
Award Winning Books 2023
Award Winning Books 2022
Award Winning Books 2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57655 2020ISBN: 9781631491665Biography
Award Winning Books 2020
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Call Number: PS3573.H4768 N53 2019ISBN: 9780385537070Fiction
Award Winning Books 2019
Award Winning Books 2018
Award Winning Books 2017
Award Winning Books 2016
Black Flags by Call Number: HV6433.I722 I8593 2015ISBN: 0385538219General Nonfiction Winner - Available from Roanoke College
Custer's Trials by Call Number: E467.1.C99 S76 2015 - Available from Roanoke CollegeISBN: 0307592642History Winner
Award Winning Books 2015
The Pope and Mussolini by Call Number: BX1377 .K47 2014ISBN: 081298367XBiography/Autobiography Winner
The Sixth Extinction by Call Number: QE721.2.E97 K65 2014ISBN: 0805092994General Nonfiction Winner - Available from Roanoke College
Award Winning Books 2014
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Award Winning Books 2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Call Number: PA6484 .G69 2011ISBN: 0393064476General Nonfiction Winner
George F. Kennan: An American Life by Call Number: E748.K374 G34 2011ISBN: 1594203121Biography/Autobiography Winner
Award Winning Books 2011
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Call Number: PS3568.Y38 B47 2010ISBN: 0802145213Poetry Winner
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Call Number: E457.2 .F66 2010ISBN: 039334066XHistory Winner
The Emporer of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by ISBN: 1410447154General Nonfiction Winner - Available from Roanoke College
Award Winning Books 2010
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Call Number: HG172.A2 A43 2009ISBN: 0143116800History Winner
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by Call Number: U264 .H645 2009ISBN: 0307387844General Nonfirction Winner
Award Winning Books 2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Call Number: E332.74 .G67 2008ISBN: 0393337766History Winner
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by ISBN: 0385722702General Nonfiction Winner - Available from Roanoke College
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by Call Number: CT275.V23 S85 2009ISBN: 1400031745Biography/Autobiography Winner
Award Winning Books 2008
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Call Number: PS3558.A725 T56 2007ISBN: 0061350281Poetry Winner
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Call Number: E338 .H69 2007ISBN: 0195392434History Winner
The Year of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Call Number: D804.3 .F753 2007ISBN: 0060930489General Nonfiction Winner
The Brief Wodrous Life of Oscar Wao by Call Number: PS3554.I259 B75 2007ISBN: 1594483299Fiction Winner
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by Call Number: PS1018 .M34 2007ISBN: 0393333590Biography/Autobiography Winner
