2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners

April 28, 2013 | Book Buzz | Comments (0)

On April 15 winners of this year's Pulitzer Prize for Letters were announced in the following categories:

Biography or Autobiography


Black countWinner:


The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

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Finalists:


Patriarch

Portrait of a novel

The Patriarch: the Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra

Fiction


The-orphan-masters-son-100x150Winner:


The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

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Finalists:


Snow child

What we talk about anne frank

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
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General Non-Fiction


DevilGrove


Winner:


Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

 

 

 

Finalists:


Behindbeautifulforevers

Forest unseen

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
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The Forest Unseen: a Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell

History


Embers of war
Winner:


Embers of War: the Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall

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Finalists:


Barbarous years

Lincoln's code

The Barbarous Years: the Peopling of British North America: the Conflict of Civilizations 1600-1975 by Bernard Bailyn
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Lincoln's Code: the Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt

Poetry


Stag's leap


Winner:

Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds

 

 

 

 

Finalists:


Abundance of nothing

Collected

The Abundance of Nothing by Bruce Weigl

Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert

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