- Daniel Kraus won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his World War I novel, Angel Down, which is notably told in a single, continuous sentence.
- Bess Wohl received the drama prize for Liberation, a play exploring 1970s feminist consciousness-raising groups, which is also tipped for a Tony Award nomination.
- Other literary awards included Jill Lepore for history, Amanda Vaill for biography, Yiyun Li for memoir-autobiography, Brian Goldstone for general nonfiction, and Juliana Spahr for poetry.
- The Minnesota Star Tribune was awarded the Pulitzer for breaking news for its coverage of a mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school.
- The Associated Press secured the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for its investigation into government surveillance in China and the involvement of US technology firms.
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