The Guggenheim Foundation is extremely pleased to recognize the five Guggenheim Fellows who won 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, announced by Columbia University on May 4. They are Colson Whitehead, Fellow 2013, for his novel The Nickel Boys: he also won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2017 for The Underground Railroad. Jericho Brown, Fellow 2016, the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in…

2020 Guggenheim Fellowship winners announced On April 8, 2020, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists. 2020 Fellows are drawn from 53 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 78 different academic institutions, 31 states and the District of…