Brown's Kertzer Awarded 2015 Pulitzer Prize

Brown's Kertzer Awarded 2015 Pulitzer Prize

David Kertzer, the former provost and chair of anthropology at Brown University, has been awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography-autobiography for his book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe. 

“I had no idea the Pulitizer Prizes were about to be announced nor any hint they were considering The Pope and Mussolini, so this is quite a shock. Like any author, I hope that the news leads many new readers to the book," said Kertzer on the award. 

Pulitzer judges described Kertzer's 2014 book as "an engrossing dual biography that uses recently opened Vatican archivis to shed light on two men who exercised nearly absolute power over their realms." 

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For more on the book, see the video below. 

Other finalists for the prize were the Thomas Brothers’ Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism and Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928.