This cover image released by Harper shows “The Night Watchman” by Louis Erdrich, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
This cover image released by Liveright shows “The Dead Are Arising” co-authored by Tamara Payne and her father Les Payne, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
FILE – Playwright Katori Hall attends the Broadway premiere of her play ” The Mountaintop” in New York on Oct. 13, 2011. Hall won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play “The Hot Wing King.”
FILE – Playwright Katori Hall poses for a portrait in front of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York on Sept, 21, 2011. Hall won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play “The Hot Wing King.”
This combination of photos shows, from left, “The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy” by David Zucchino, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, “The Dead Are Arising” co-authored by Tamara Payne and her father Les Payne, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography and “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” by Marcia Chatelain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history.
This cover image released by Atlantic Monthly shows “Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy” by David Zucchino, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
This cover image released by Liveright/Norton shows “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” by Marcia Chatelain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Korey Jackson, left, and Toussaint Jeanlouis appear during a performance of “The Hot Wing King.” Playwright Katori Hall won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play.
The cast of “The Hot Wing King” appears during a performance on Feb. 8, 2020. Playwright Katori Hall won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play.
FILE – Tania Leon appears at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2013. Leon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music for her work “Stride.”
FILE – Cuban-American composer Tania Leon appears at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2013. Leon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music for her work “Stride.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, racism and colonialism in the U.S. swept the Pulitzer Prizes for the arts, from Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Night Watchman” to a Malcolm X biography co-written by the late Les Payne to Katori Hall’s play “The Hot Wing King.”
The awards were announced Friday during a remote ceremony that honored the best work in journalism and the arts in 2020, a year defined in part by the police killing of George Floyd and the protests and reckoning which followed. The news also comes amid an intensifying debate over race and education, with legislators in Texas and elsewhere seeking to restrict the teaching of racial injustice.
“What the Pulitzers are awarding this year seems so timely,” Tamara Payne, Les Payne’s daughter and the principal researcher for his book, told The Associated Press. “All of these voices are so important and always have been important.”
Marcia Chatelain, whose “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” won for history, said that she felt honored to be among a group of writers who have “tried to find a way to make clear that writing about race is fundamental to understanding what we need as a society.”
Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, has drawn upon her background and blended the traditions of oral and written storytelling for such acclaimed novels as “The Round House” and “The Plague of Doves.” She based “The Night Watchman” on the life of her grandfather, a night watchman whose reservation in rural North Dakota is threatened in the 1950s by congressional legislation.
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