Pulitzer Winners: Angel Down & Liberation
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- Daniel Kraus wins the Pulitzer Fiction prize for Angel Down, a WWI novel written in a single sentence.
- Bess Wohl receives the Drama Pulitzer for Liberation, a memory play about 1970s feminism that opens with six actors disrobing.
- Jill Lepore captures the History Pulitzer for We the People: A History of the US Constitution, a comprehensive constitutional narrative.
- Yiyun Li earns the Memoir prize for Things in Nature Merely Grow, a stark account of her two sons' suicides.
- Gabriela Lena Frank wins the Music Pulitzer for Picaflor: A Future Myth, a symphonic work inspired by Andean legend and California wildfires.
Why it matters: Bess Wohl's play gains a boost just before the Tony nominations, likely driving ticket sales and spotlighting feminist narratives on Broadway, which benefits producers and expands audience reach.
