Hernan Diaz’s ‘Trust’ & Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperfield’ Win Pulitzer Prize

‘Demon Copperhead’ by Barbara Kingsolver, which is a modern recasting of the Dickens classic “David Copperfield,” and Hernan Diaz’s ‘Trust’, an innovative narrative of wealth and deceit set in 1920s New York, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday.

Beverly Gage’s ‘G-Man’ on long-time FBI leader J Edgar Hoover, was given the Pulitzer for biography. ‘His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice’, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, won Pulitzer for general nonfiction.

Sanaz Toossi’s play ‘English’ won for drama and Jefferson Cowie’s ‘Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power’ was awarded history.

The Pulitzer for memoir or autobiography was given to Hua Hsu’s coming-of-age story ‘Stay True’.

Carl Phillips won in poetry for ‘Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020’. ‘Omar’, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, won the Pulitzer for music.