Jayne Anne Phillips, Nathan Thrall and others win 2024 Pulitzers

“King,” widely regarded as the definitive biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., made headlines last year when Eig shared his archival discovery that King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X appeared to have been fabricated. In his Post review calling it “the most compelling account of King’s life in a generation,” Mark Whitaker noted that the book “deals only briskly with the complex and evolving rivalry” between the two activists, though he praised its nuanced portrait of Coretta Scott King.

“Master Slave Husband Wife” follows a couple’s escape, in 1848, from the slave state of Georgia to Pennsylvania. The wife, Ellen Craft, personated a wealthy White enslaver; her husband, William, played the role of her enslaved attendant. “I’ve been continually inspired by each of the choices the Crafts make,” author Ilyon Woo told NPR. “It starts, of course, with their journey and pursuing their own freedom. The way in which they continually challenge themselves — for me, that’s been an ongoing inspiration.”

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