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Pulitzer Prizes announced yesterday


The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday afternoon, Monday, April 20.Book-related winners of the Pulitzer Prize were:
* Fiction: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Find this book in our catalog)
* Drama: Ruined by Lynn Nottage (not yet published)
* History: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette
Gordon-Reed (Find this book in our catalog)
* Biography: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon
Meacham (Find this book in our catalog)
* Poetry: The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin (Find this book in our catalog)
* General Nonfiction: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of
Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A.
Blackmon (Find this book in our catalog).
* Drama: Ruined by Lynn Nottage (not yet published)
* History: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette
Gordon-Reed (Find this book in our catalog)
* Biography: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon
Meacham (Find this book in our catalog)
* Poetry: The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin (Find this book in our catalog)
* General Nonfiction: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of
Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A.
Blackmon (Find this book in our catalog).
Finalists included:
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
All Souls by Christine Schutt
Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie & Robert Weisbrot
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart
What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems by Ruth Stone
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock.
Labels: Pulitzer Prizes
posted by Elizabeth on 4/21/2009




