Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls has become the second graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.
The graphic novel won the award in the “Memoir” category, which comes with a prize of $15,000. Hulls follows in the footsteps of Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer in 1992 for his work on Maus.
Pulitzer Prize administrator Marjorie Miller announced the awards today in a livestream on YouTube and described Feeding Ghosts as “an affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women — the author, her mother and grandmother — and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories.”
Published last March, Hulls’ memoir has won numerous other awards, including the National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2025 Anisfield Wolf Prize and the Libby Award for Best Graphic Novel.
In other comic-related Pulitzer news, Ann Telnaes, who quit the Washington Post earlier this year after the paper rejected a political carton she proposed featuring several tech and media executives bowing down to President Donald Trump, won the award this year for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.
About her award, the Pulitzer committee said they gave it to her “for delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.”