Pulitzers and American Library Association launch ‘Pulitzer on the Road’ touring exhibit

Barbara Kingsolver, Percival Everett, and Daniel Kraus will join Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and journalists in a 20-city touring exhibit called "Pulitzer on the Road: Prize-Winning Works That Inform, Empower & Inspire." The exhibition will be a collaboration between the Pulitzers and the American Library Association, with the first stop at the Chicago Public Library and the Dallas Public Library in October 2026.

The tour will continue through May 2028, visiting libraries across the United States, including Reading, Pennsylvania, and San Jose, California.

The exhibit will showcase over a century of Pulitzer Prize winners, including groundbreaking news reporting like the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal, iconic photographs such as the AP's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima," poems by Sylvia Plath and Robert Frost, plays by Arthur Miller and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and fiction by Toni Morrison and John Steinbeck.

Kingsolver, Everett, and Kraus will make appearances alongside composer Gabriela Frank and photojournalist Jon Cherry, among others. Marjorie Miller, administrator of the Pulitzers, explained that the exhibit was created to bring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism and storytelling to communities nationwide, highlighting the exceptional work honored since the prizes were first awarded in 1917.

Maria McCauley, president of the American Library Association, added that the exhibit would provide opportunities for visitors to connect with prize-winning works that inspire curiosity, conversation, and civic engagement.