Tessa Hulls was making sandwiches in the Alaska Capitol when she learned she had won a Pulitzer Prize.
Her book, “Feeding Ghosts,” is a nonfiction graphic novel that documents three generations of women in her family, starting with her grandmother, who was a journalist at the time of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
It had already won three national awards by the time the Pulitzer announcement came on Monday, placing her among America’s top writers. She…

