Here is the New York Times guide to the Pulitzer Prize books and finalists for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, history and biography.
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/books/pulitzer-prize-books.amp.html
âFifteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of fiction, general history, biography, poetry and general nonfiction.
Winner: âThe Nickel Boys,â by Colson Whitehead
In his latest novel, the âUnderground Railroadâ writer fictionalized the story of a Florida school where dozens of black boys were tortured and buried in a secret graveyard. âWere Whiteheadâs only aim to shine an unforgiving light on a redacted chapter of racial terrorism in the American chronicle, that would be achievement enough,â wrote our reviewer. But Whitehead âapplies a master storytellerâs muscle not just to excavating a grievous past but to examining the process by which Americans undermine, distort, hide or âneatly eraseâ the stories he is driven to tell.â
I just started listening to this on audible! Itâs surprisingly pretty short, only a little over 6 hours.