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Pulitzer Prize 2017
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize went to The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar (Biography or Autobiography) and Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson (History). 6 books were finalists across 2 categories.
Winners
Biography or Autobiography
History
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacysource (opens in a new tab)
Finalists
Biography or Autobiography
History
- Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved Itsource (opens in a new tab)
- New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early Americasource (opens in a new tab)
About the Pulitzer Prize
Winners and finalists from the pulitzer.org Biography and History category pages. The Biography category was named Biography or Autobiography through 2022; entries use the name in force that year. In 2016 the board moved Custer's Trials from Biography finalist to History winner; it appears in both, as pulitzer.org lists it.
Organization: Pulitzer Prizes. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- National Book Critics Circle Awards 27 shared books
- Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 24 shared books
- National Book Awards 16 shared books
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Project 14 shared books
- PEN America Literary Awards 11 shared books