Pulitzer Prize winners Barbara Kingsolver, Percival Everett, and Daniel Kraus will be among the authors and other Pulitzer Prize-winning artists and journalists participating in a 20-city touring exhibition jointly organized by the Pulitzers and the American Library Association.
The exhibition, titled “Pulitzer on the Road: Prize-Winning Works That Inform, Empower & Inspire,” will launch in October at the Chicago Public Library and the Dallas Public Library and continue through May 2028, with stops at public libraries from Reading, Pennsylvania, to San Jose, California.
The exhibit will highlight more than a century of Pulitzer winners, including groundbreaking news reporting such as the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal, iconic photographs like the AP’s “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” poems by Sylvia Plath and Robert Frost, plays by Arthur Miller and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and fiction by Toni Morrison and John Steinbeck.
Kingsolver, Everett, and Kraus, all Pulitzer-winning novelists, will make appearances, along with composer Gabriela Frank and photojournalist Jon Cherry, among others.
“Pulitzer on the Road was created to bring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism and storytelling to communities across the country, showcasing the exceptional work that has been honored since the prizes were first awarded in 1917,” Marjorie Miller, administrator of the Pulitzers, said in a statement Thursday.
Maria McCauley, president of the American Library Association, said in a statement that the exhibit would create “opportunities for visitors to connect with the excellent prize-winning works that drive curiosity, conversation and civic engagement.”