Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced for 2011. Among the winners were Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit from the Goon Squad and Ron Chernow’s novel Washington: A Life.
Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It’s the story of an indie record label owner who has a wide network of loosely connected characters. The Pulitzer board called the book “an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.”
Ron Chernow’s novel Washington: A Life, won for the Biography and autobiography category known to be the landmark biography of George Washington.
Although I have yet to listen to both of these audio books, I am looking forward to starting them soon. I hope you do as well!
Below is the full list of winners and finalists for the “Letters, Drama, and Music” categories:
FICTION
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
FINALISTS:
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
DRAMA
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
FINALISTS:
Detroit by Lisa D’Amour
A Free Man of Color by John Guare
HISTORY
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
FINALISTS:
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston by Michael Rawson
BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
FINALISTS:
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon by Michael O’Brien
POETRY
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
FINALISTS:
The Common Man by Maurice Manning
Break the Glass by Jean Valentine
GENERAL NONFICTION
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
FINALISTS:
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain by Nicholas Carr
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
MUSIC
Madame White Snake by Zhou Long
FINALISTS:
Arches by Fred Lerdahl
Comala by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
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