Angel Down, Liberation Win Arts Pulitzers

The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went Monday to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror, and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for Angel Down, a World War I narrative that unfolds in one long sentence, the AP reports. The 50-year-old Kraus has had a diverse and prolific career that includes collaborations with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro, the AP reports. Pulitzer jurors praised Angel Down as "a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism, and science fiction into a cohesive whole." Other winners in the arts included two books rooted in the country's founding. The winners in journalism and the arts are listed here.

• Drama: Liberation, Bess Wohl's look at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s, collects second-wave feminists from all walks of life as they tackle misogyny, internalized homophobia, domestic abuse, and gender roles. The play navigates between past and present, and six of the actors disrobe for the Act 2 opening scene. The play ran on Broadway from October 2025 to Feb. 1, per Deadline.
• History: Jill Lepore's We the People: A History of the US Constitution
• Biography: Amanda Vaill's Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
• Memoir-autobiography: Yiyun Li's Things in Nature Merely Grow, her blunt account of the suicides of her two sons
• General nonfiction: Brian Goldstone's There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
• Poetry: Juliana Spahr's Ars Poeticas
• Music: Gabriela Lena Frank for Picaflor: A Future Myth, a symphonic work inspired by Andean legend and California wildfires