Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography. Category first awarded in 2023.
Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography Public
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Phil in SF says: 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Memoir or Autobiography. An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.
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Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Memoir or Autobiography. A genre-bending account of the author’s 20-year-old sister, murdered by a former boyfriend, that mixes memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography stitched together with a determination born of loss.