Books by Jonathan Rosen
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
by Jonathan Rosen
☆ Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography
Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor, Yale classmates and childhood friends, were inseparable for years. But in the midst of a high-flying career, Michael developed paranoid schizophrenia and later—in the grip of delusion—stabbed his girlfriend to death. He has been in a high-security psychiatric unit ever since. Rosen's memoir of his friendship with Laudor is "heart-rending," says the Guardian: "a rich and deeply thoughtful book about the nature of madness and the way that western society deals with it."
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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.
