Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
This year, for the first time since 1977, there will be no Pulitzer Prize given for fiction. The jurors have announced that they could not reach a concensus and will therefore not present this award.
The Pulitzer Prizes for books are awarded in several categories.
Biography or Autobiography
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Winner:
George F. Kennan: an American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Finalists:
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel
Malcolm X: a Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
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eBook
Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Drama
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Winner:
Water by the Spoonful by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes
Finalists:
Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam
Fiction
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Finalists:
The Pale King: an Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace
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Swamplandia by Karen Russell
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eBook
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
General Non-Fiction
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Winner:
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
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Finalists:
One Hundred Names for Love: a Stroke, a Marriage and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman
Large Print
eAudiobook
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl
History
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Winner:
Malcolm X: a Life of Reinvention by Manning Maracle
Audiobook
eBook
Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Finalists:
Empires, Nations & Families: a History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde
The Eleventh Day: the Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
Railroaded: the Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White
Poetry
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Winner:
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Finalists:
Core Samples from the World by Forrest Gander
How Long by Ron Padgett
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