Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners

Jill Lepore speaks during The New Yorker Festival in New York City in October 2015. Thos Robinson/ for The New Yorker hide caption toggle caption Thos Robinson/ for The New Yorker The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon, celebrating two dozen winners across journalism and the arts. Author Daniel Kraus won in the fiction category for his book Angel Down , a story of World War I soldiers who find a fallen angel amongst the dead in No Man's Land – a tale Kraus relates entirely within one sentence. Among other winners in the books categories were historian Jill Lepore for We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution and Brian Goldstone for There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. The Pulitzer board gave out two prizes in the local reporting category, a nod to the dynamism of both local journalism and relatively new newsrooms. One award was given to reporters from The Connecticut Mirror, a local news website, and reporters from ProPublica, who were recognized for their series on unscrupulous car-towing companies. The other was given to the staff of The Chicago Tribune for their chronicles of ICE sweeps of their city. The audio journalism winner was the staff of the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out , which investigated how the Los Angeles Clippers basketball organization seemingly ducked the NBA salary cap rule by paying its star forward, Kawhi Leonard, extra money via an endorsement deal. (The NBA recently said it is still investigating . …