The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, and Elizabeth Strout has won the prize for fiction for her novel Olive Kitteredge. The other book winners are as follows:
Fiction – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Drama – Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History – The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
Biography – American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
Poetry – The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction – Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
Congratulations to all this year’s winners. Certainly in fiction, the competition was very stiff.
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