Books of DistinctionThe 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded last Monday. Here's a list of winners and finalists in the Fiction, History, Biography, and general Nonfiction categories. Prize winners are listed first.
Fiction
Fiction
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
All Souls by Christine Schutt
History
History
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot
Biography or Autobiography
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot
Biography or Autobiography
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
General Nonfiction
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
General Nonfiction
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock
For more information about 2009 Pulitzer Prizes, click here.
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