The unmatched Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize tradition and achievement continues. William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, John Steinbeck, Ron Chernow, Anne Applebaum, Colson Whitehead (twice). These are just a few of the Penguin Random House authors whose work has been honored with a Pulitzer, the most prestigious annual prize in American letters. Joining our previous 133 winners are these 2023 recipients, in four of the six Letters categories, announced May 8 at Columbia University, by Administrator Marjorie Miller.