Tessa Hulls, The Other 2025 Pulitzer Winning Cartoonist
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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.
The Pulitzer Prizes have two divisions – Journalism and Arts & Letters (Books, Drama & Music).
In that second division Tessa Hulls won the Pulitzer Prize in the Memoir or Autobiography category for her Feeding Ghosts, A Graphic Memoir graphic novel. Just the latest in a long list of honors for the cartoonist and her book.
Thirty-three years after Maus by Art Spiegelman was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize as a Special Citation, Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls becomes the second graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Heidi MacDonald at The Beat reports:
Hulls’ book follow three generation of Chinese women through the reverberations of history and personal trauma. Her grandmother was a journalist swept up in the Communist revolution who escapes to Hong Kong but suffers from a mental breakdown. Hulls tells her story and that of her mother and herself as they struggle to reckon with family and world history….and their own attempts to survive it. Told in a dense, woodcut like style, it’s a powerful work that has already won a load of awards including the National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2025 Anisfield Wolf Prize, the Libby Award For Best Graphic Novel and the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal.
In the Pacific Northwest territories are claiming Tessa as their own.
The Seattle Times: Seattle author Tessa Hulls wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize
Juneau Empire: Juneau author Tessa Hulls wins Pulitzer Prize
Seattle Magazine: Seattle Author Wins Pulitzer Prize
Alaska Beacon: From Alaska Capitol’s cafeteria, author and illustrator claims Pulitzer Prize
Tessa Hulls and Feeding Ghosts will now be forever linked to Art Spiegelman and Maus.
Congratulations Tessa!
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