The Pulitzer Prizes

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday, and the winners were:

•Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
•Drama: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Theatre Communications Group)
•History: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
•Biography: Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (Norton)
•Poetry: Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco) and Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
•General Nonfiction: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

Pulitzer Prizes

The Pulitzer Prizes http://www.pulitzer.org/2007/2007.html were announced Monday.

Pulitzer book winners are:

Fiction: The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf)
General Nonfiction: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (Knopf)
History: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Knopf)
Biography: The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
Poetry: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
Drama: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire (Theatre Communications Group, distributed by Consortium)

For those of you who have been reading a while, what did I say my favorite book was last year? :)