Pulitzer winners (and non-winners)
Posted by: Sarah Hunter
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners were announced this week with a few notable exceptions. No one was awarded the prize in the Editorial Writing or Fiction categories, despite strong contenders in the latter category. The Fiction award finalists were Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, and Pale King, by David Foster Wallace. Here’s the list of winners in the book categories:
History
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by the late Manning Marable
Biography
George F. Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis
Poetry
Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith
General Nonfiction
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt
