Three Pulitzers For Penguin Random House
This brings the number of PRH authors who have received the prestigious prize since it was first awarded in 1917 to 143.
When this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at Columbia University in New York on Monday, the honorees once again included authors on the Penguin Random House roster, continuing a fine tradition for the Bertelsmann book division. Since the award was first presented in 1917, a total of 143 Penguin Random House authors have won the famous prize. This time, the recipients are Percival Everett, Jason Roberts, and Kathleen DuVal who were honored in the “Fiction,” “Biography,” and “History” categories, respectively.
The Pulitzer Prize jury cited Percival Everett’s novel “James,” published by Doubleday, as “an accomplished reconsideration of Huckleberry Finn that gives agency to Jim to illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy and provide a new take on the search for family and freedom.” “Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life” by Jason Roberts (Random House) was described as “a beautifully written double biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon.” And the nonfiction book “Native Nations” by Kathleen Duval was praised by the judges as “a vivid and accessible account” of Native American nations and communities over a thousand years.
In addition to the three award-winning titles, three other titles published by Penguin Random House U.S. were Pulitzer Prize finalists this year: “Headshot” by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking) in the “Fiction” category, “I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition” by Lucy Sante (Penguin Press) in the “Memoir or Autobiography” category and “I Am On The Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India” by Rollo Romig (Penguin Books) in the “General Nonfiction” category.
The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Arts, and Letters have been awarded annually by the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York since 1917. They now comprise 24 categories, of which six are dedicated to books in the “Fiction,” “History,” “Biography,” “Memoir or Autobiography,” “Poetry,” and “General Nonfiction” genres.
