Pulitzer Prize-Winning Authors

From biographies to memoir, journalism to fiction, these Pulitzer Prize-winning author speakers have dedicated their lives to perfecting their craft, and are among our most celebrated writers today.

Percival Everett

Author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel James

Colson Whitehead

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys

Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically-acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste

Ed Yong

Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author of An Immense World

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Deborah Blum

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Poisoner's Handbook and The Poison Squad

Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist and bestselling author

Geraldine Brooks

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the international bestselling People of the Book

John Carreyrou

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Bad Blood

Ron Chernow

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton

Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, New Yorker staff writer, and author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S

Hernan Diaz

Pulitzer Prize winning author of Trust and In the Distance

Kathleen DuVal

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, professor, and author of Native Nations

Junot Díaz

Author of New York Times bestsellers The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her; winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Jennifer Egan

Author of The Candy House and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad

Joseph J. Ellis

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, presidential historian, and author of Founding Brothers and American Dialogue

Dexter Filkins

Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent and author of The Forever War

Dr. Sheri Fink

Pulitzer Prize-winning medical journalist and author of Five Days at Memorial, M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford

Fredrik Logevall

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War and Vietnam War historian

Jenny Nordberg

Award-winning investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and author of The Underground Girls of Kabul

Jerry Saltz

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for New York magazine

T.J. Stiles

Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, American historian, and author of Custer's Trials

Elizabeth Strout

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge and New York Times bestsellers My Name is Lucy Barton, Tell Me Everything, and more

Lawrence Wright

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower and staff writer for The New Yorker
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