Books by Hala Alyan
I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir
by Hala Alyan
☆ Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography
After suffering miscarriage after punishing miscarriage—"how many times does a person need to get pregnant to get pregnant?"—the Palestinian American poet Hala Alyan decides to have a child by surrogate, and must wait as her baby grows in the body of another woman in another country. As she does, she finds herself reckoning with her family's displacement from their homeland: "Surrogacy as metaphor for rescue. Surrogacy as metaphor for exile."
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Autobiographies and Memoirs
Since 2023, the Pulitzer Prize jury has awarded $15,000 annually to “a distinguished and factual memoir or autobiography by an American author.” We’ve put together a list of the exceptional books that have received this honour since the prize’s inauguration—plus the finalists who have been singled out for particular praise.
