They're the most prestigious awards in America, not just for journalists, but historians, novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers and composers.
The 2022 Pulitzers were awarded in the following arts and letters categories:
Biography: the late Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly for Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Nonfiction: Andrea Elliott for Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
History: Ada Ferrer for Cuba: An American History and Nicole Eustace for Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Poetry: Diane Seuss for frank: sonnets
Fiction: Joshua Cohen for The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Drama: James Ijames for Fat Ham
Music: Raven Chacon for Voiceless Mass
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