Congrats to Our Three Penguin Random House 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners

By Jennifer Rubins | May 6 2025 | Awards

Check your library shelves for these 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners! Do you offer these exceptional reads in all formats?

On Monday, May 5, three Penguin Random House authors were honored with a Pulitzer Prize. Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious awards in American letters.

To date, PRH has 143 Pulitzer Prize winners, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Josh Steinbeck, Ron Chernow, Anne Applebaum, Colson Whitehead, and many more. Take a look at our 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists across genres!

Fiction Winner

A Novel

Pulitzer Citation: An accomplished reconsideration of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ that gives agency to Jim to illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy and provide a new take on the search for family and freedom.


Biography Winner

The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

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Pulitzer Citation: A beautifully written double biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon, 18th century contemporaries who devoted their lives to identifying and describing nature’s secrets, and who continue to influence how we understand the world.

 


History (Co-Winner)

A Millennium in North America

Pulitzer Citation: A panoramic portrait of Native American nations and communities over a thousand years, a vivid and accessible account of their endurance, ingenuity and achievement in the face of conflict and dispossession.