The Pulitzer Prize awards have been announced for 2019, and plenty of Californians and California-based organizations are among the recipients.
Among them are Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan, and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times for Investigative Reporting, on the USC sexual abuse scandal; UC Santa Barbara professor Jeffrey C. Stewart in Biography for his book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke about the father of the Harlem Renaissance; Ellen Reid in Music for her new operatic work p r i s m, which confronts subjects including emotional and sexual abuse.
Among the finalists are Tommy Orange of Oakland in Fiction, for his debut novel There, There set in a California powwow, and the staff of the Chico Press-Enterprise, in collaboration wit the Bay Area News Group for their Breaking News Reporting of the California wildfires this past fall.
Congratulations to all the finalists and awardees from California and beyond! View the entire list here.
