The 2007 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced, and clearly the judges have been watching Oprah. Here are the winners for Letters, Drama, and Music:
Fiction
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (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 (Knopf)
Biography
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 (Knopf)
Music
Sound Grammar, by Ornette Coleman
Oh, and the quote in my headline? I made it up. Because the Pulitzers honor both journalism and fiction.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:00 am
[…] Ending a long drought, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has won a major literary prize. (What has it been, four months?) From the Beeb (”Author McCarthy scoops book prize“): Pulitzer Prize-winning US author Cormac McCarthy has won the UK’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. […]