Awards for Authors
National Humanities Medals are awarded each year to individuals or groups whose work has promoted individuals’ engagement with literature, history, languages, philosophy and other humanities subjects. Among the recipeints of the 2021 awards, presented by President Biden on May 5, 2023, are authors we know well.
Ann Patchett
Walter Isaacson
Amy Tan
Tara Westover
Colin Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize Winners for 2023
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver–fiction–A retelling of Dickens’ David Copperfield
Trust, Hernan Diaz–fiction–A complex novel about the world of money
Freedom’s Dominion, Jefferson Cowie–history–Vanderbilt historian looks at four separate moments between white Alabamians and the federal government in order to understand racism and the loathing of government in American culture today
G-Man, Beverly Gage–A biography of the career of J Edgar Hoover
Stay True, Hua Hsu–This memoir is from a man who is recently immigrated from Taiwan and beomces a student at UC Berkeley in the mid-1990s
His Name is George Floyd, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa–general non-fiction–Two Washington Post reporters examine George Floyd’s life before his death.
