Pulitzers for Books

No doubt our brethren at FishbowlNY will be all over the media and journalism-based awards, but we’ll take the “Letters and Drama” category, as the organization deems it, and report on those winners:

FICTION: March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

(Also nominated were E.L Doctorow for THE MARCH — you think the judges got confused about which one they wanted to award? — and Lee Martin’s THE BRIGHT FOREVER)

DRAMA: No Award

HISTORY: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)

(Also nominated were Jill Lepore’s NEW YORK BURNING and Sean Wilentz’s THE RISE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: FROM JEFFERSON TO LINCOLN)

BIOGRAPHY: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)

(Also nominated were Joan Didion’s THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING and Megan Marshall’s THE PEABODY SISTERS)

POETRY: Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)

(Also nominated were Elizabeth Alexander’s AMERICAN SUBLIME and Dean Young’s ELEGY ON TOY PIANO)

GENERAL NON-FICTION: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)

(Also nominated were George Packer’s THE ASSASSIN’S GATE and Tony Judt’s POSTWAR: A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1945)

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