Three Pulitzers For Penguin Random House

When this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at Columbia University in New York on Monday, the honorees once again included authors on the Penguin Random House roster, continuing a fine tradition for the Bertelsmann book division. Since the award was first presented in 1917, a total of 143 Penguin Random House authors have won the famous prize. This time, the recipients are Percival Everett, Jason Roberts, and Kathleen DuVal who were honored in the “Fiction,” “Biography,” and “History” categories, respectively.

The Pulitzer Prize jury cited Percival Everett’s novel “James,” published by Doubleday, as “an accomplished reconsideration of Huckleberry Finn that gives agency to Jim to illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy and provide a new take on the search for family and freedom.” “Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life” by Jason Roberts (Random House) was described as “a beautifully written double biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon.” And the nonfiction book “Native Nations” by Kathleen Duval was praised by the judges as “a vivid and accessible account” of Native American nations and communities over a thousand years.
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