Monday, April 20, 2009

Pulitzers Announced

Columbia announced the 2009 Pulitzer winners this afternoon. The full list is here.

Notables:

Fiction - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

History - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

Biography - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

Poetry - The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin

General Nonfiction - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon