Author record · 2015 to 2020

Anne Boyer: Awards and Best-of Lists

Anne Boyer has won 1 award, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography (2020) for The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, with 1 shortlist or finalist place and 5 year-end list picks in our archive.

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
Year	Book	Source	Result
2020	The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography source (opens in a new tab)	Winner · General Nonfiction
2020	The Undying	PEN America Literary Awards source (opens in a new tab)	Finalist · PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
2019	The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, And Care	NPR Books We Love source (opens in a new tab)	Selection · Books We Love
2019	The Undying	The Irish Times Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)	Selection · Books of the Year
2019	The Undying	Kirkus Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)	Selection · Nonfiction
2018	A Handbook of Disappointed Fate	Vulture / New York Magazine Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)	Selection · Best Books
2015	Garments Against Women	The Irish Times Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)	Selection · Books of the Year

Books

The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care5 sources · 2019 to 2020
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate1 source · 2018
Garments Against Women1 source · 2015