Journalism
Public Service
Associated Press
Breaking News Reporting
Staff of the Los Angeles Times
Investigative Reporting
Staff of The Wall Street Journal
Explanatory Reporting
Caitlin Dickerson of The Atlantic
Local Reporting
John Archibald, Ashley Remkus, Ramsey Archibald and Challen Stephens of AL.com, Birmingham
and
Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today, Ridgeland, Miss.
National Reporting
Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post
International Reporting
Staff of The New York Times
Feature Writing
Eli Saslow of The Washington Post
Commentary
Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham
Criticism
Andrea Long Chu of New York magazine
Editorial Writing
Nancy Ancrum, Amy Driscoll, Luisa Yanez, Isadora Rangel and Lauren Costantino of the Miami Herald
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Mona Chalabi, contributor, The New York Times
Breaking News Photography
Photography Staff of Associated Press
Feature Photography
Christina House of the Los Angeles Times
Audio Reporting
Staff of Gimlet Media, notably Connie Walker
Letters and Drama
Fiction
"Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
and
"Trust" by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
Drama
"English" by Sanaz Toossi
History
"Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
Biography
"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century" by Beverly Gage (Viking)
Poetry
"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020" by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
General Nonfiction
"His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice" by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
Music
"Omar" by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, premiered on May 27, 2022 at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C.