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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