The full list of winners and nominated finalists from the arts & letters categories are below.

Fiction

Joshua Cohen,
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

Finalists:

Francisco Goldman, Monkey Boy

Gayl Jones, Palmares

History

Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night

Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History

Finalist:

Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Biography

The late Winifred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly,

 Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Finalists:

Richard Zenith, Pessoa: A Biography

Janice P. Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brough Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Poetry

Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

Finalists:

Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain

Will Alexander, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

General Nonfiction

Andrea Elliott,
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Finalists:

Carla Power, Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism

Joshua Prager, The Family Roe

Music

Raven Chacon, Voiceless Mass

Finalists:

Andy Akiho, Seven Pillars

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, with eyes the color of time

Drama

James Ijames, Fat Ham

Finalists:

Sylvia Khoury, Selling Kabul

Kristina Wong, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord