Earl R. Merrill: Powers’s ‘Overstory’, Stewart’s ‘The New Negro’, Blight’s Frederick Douglass Bio, Griswold’s ‘Amity And Prosperity’ Win Literary Pulitzers

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Powers’s ‘Overstory’, Stewart’s ‘The New Negro’, Blight’s Frederick Douglass Bio, Griswold’s ‘Amity And Prosperity’ Win Literary Pulitzers

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes for freestanding books went to The Overstory by Richard Powers (fiction), Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold (general nonfiction), The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart (biography), Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (history), and Be With by Forrest Gander (poetry). – Publishers Weekly