The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. Here are the books:
Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
History
What Hath God Wrought, by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford Univ.)
Biography
Eden’s Outcasts, by John Matteson (Norton)
Poetry
Time and Materials, by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)
Poetry
Failure, by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
General Nonfiction
The Years of Extermination, by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)
