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Pulitzer Prizes in Letters

The Pultizer Prizes for Letters are judged in the following categories: for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life; for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States; for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author; for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author; for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. Awards are announced in April.

2008

Fiction

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

Drama

August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

History

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

Biography or Autobiography

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

Poetry

Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)

and

Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

General Nonfiction

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins)

2007

Fiction

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

Drama

Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

History

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)

Biography or Autobiography

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)

Poetry

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)

General Nonfiction

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006

Fiction

March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin)

General Non-Fiction

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)

Biography

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin J. Sherwin (Random House)

History

Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)

Poetry

Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)

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