Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Pulitzer on the Road came to Jackson for the Mississippi Book Festival on Saturday September 14, 2024, where Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and journalists discussed their work at two different events.
Martin Luther King Jr. and George Floyd: Award Winning Biographies
2024 Biography winner Jonathan Eig (author of King: A Life) and 2023 General Nonfiction winner Robert Samuels (journalist and co-author with Toluse Olorunnipa of His Name is George Floyd) were in conversation with historian and Pulitzer Board member Kelly Lytle Hernández about their books on two men whose lives are forever connected to major movements in American history.
We are grateful to the Mississippi Book Festival for filming the event, and to their photographer, Drew Dempsey.
The Pulitzer on the Road event on Investigative Journalism, featuring 2023 Local Reporting winner Anna Wolfe, 2024 Local Reporting finalist Jerry Mitchell, and 2024 Investigative Reporting contributor Brody Mullins, can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=YxIlfyVVBkI
Both events were held in the Old Supreme Court Room in the State Capitol Building in Jackson, Mississippi. For more information, visit the Mississippi Book Festival website.
For more information on Pulitzer on the Road, visit pulitzer.org
Pulitzer on the Road came to Jackson for the Mississippi Book Festival on Saturday September 14, 2024, where Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and journalists discussed their work at two different events.
Martin Luther King Jr. and George Floyd: Award Winning Biographies
2024 Biography winner Jonathan Eig (author of King: A Life) and 2023 General Nonfiction winner Robert Samuels (journalist and co-author with Toluse Olorunnipa of His Name is George Floyd) were in conversation with historian and Pulitzer Board member Kelly Lytle Hernández about their books on two men whose lives are forever connected to major movements in American history.
We are grateful to the Mississippi Book Festival for filming the event, and to their photographer, Drew Dempsey.
The Pulitzer on the Road event on Investigative Journalism, featuring 2023 Local Reporting winner Anna Wolfe, 2024 Local Reporting finalist Jerry Mitchell, and 2024 Investigative Reporting contributor Brody Mullins, can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=YxIlfyVVBkI
Both events were held in the Old Supreme Court Room in the State Capitol Building in Jackson, Mississippi. For more information, visit the Mississippi Book Festival website.
For more information on Pulitzer on the Road, visit pulitzer.org
