Bard College professor wins Pulitzer Prize

Bard College Professor of Literature Dr. Hua Hsu made history this week as the winner of 2023 Pulitzer Prize in the new category for Memoir or Autobiography for his book “Stay True,” published by Doubleday.

The Pulitzer Prize jury praised Hsu”™s work as “an elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.”

Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the 2016 book “A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific.” “Stay True” was published last September and also won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Hsu has been at Annandale-on-Hudson’s Bard College since 2022 and his research and academic interests include Asian American studies, transpacific studies, critical ethnic studies, popular culture and subculture, and literary nonfiction. He received his BA for the University of California, Berkeley and his PhD from Harvard University.