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CHICAGO — Chicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023 biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a bestseller widely recognized for its monumental scope and fresh findings. Even some previous King biographers have called Eig’s work the new definitive narrative about the civil rights leader. In awarding the prize, the Pulitzer committee cited ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, slavery and the Civil War, real and invented, were winners this year for the Pulitzer Prizes.

Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler won the prestigious award in the Local Reporting category. Invisible Institute also won for Audio Reporting.

Winning books include Night Watch and King: A Life while journalism winners focused on coverage of the Israel-Hamas war

Special citations were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board to late hip-hop writer Greg Tate and journalists covering the war in Gaza.