2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners
On April 15 winners of this year's Pulitzer Prize for Letters were announced in the following categories:
Biography or Autobiography
Winner:
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Finalists:
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The Patriarch: the Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra
Fiction
Winner:
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
Finalists:
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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• eAudiobook
• Large Print
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
General Non-Fiction
Winner:
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
Finalists:
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
The Forest Unseen: a Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
History

Winner:
Embers of War: the Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
• eBook
Finalists:
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The Barbarous Years: the Peopling of British North America: the Conflict of Civilizations 1600-1975 by Bernard Bailyn
• eBook
Lincoln's Code: the Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt
Poetry
Winner:
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
Finalists:
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The Abundance of Nothing by Bruce Weigl
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert












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