Pulitzer Announces Letters, Drama, Music Winners

NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize officials on Monday announced winners in the letters, drama and music categories, with Daniel Kraus receiving the fiction prize for "Angel Down," a World War I narrative told in a single, 300-page sentence blending allegory, magical realism and science fiction.

The drama award went to Bess Wohl for "Liberation," a memory play that gathers second-wave feminists from diverse backgrounds to confront misogyny, internalized homophobia, domestic abuse and gender roles. The production shifts between past and present, opening Act 2 with six actors disrobing. The recognition arrives a day before Tony Award nominations, where the play is expected to contend for best new play.

Other winners included two works tied to the nation's founding era. Jill Lepore won history for "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." Amanda Vail took biography for "Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution." Yiyun Li's "Things in Nature Merely Grow," a stark account of her two sons' suicides, earned the memoir-autobiography prize. Brian Goldstone received general nonfiction for "There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America." Juliana Spahr...