The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2011 have been announced! If you want to be considered well read in many social circles, it’s probably a good idea for you to get these books from Better World Books and soak in all the goodness.
A brief history of the prize:
The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917 and they are now announced each April. The prize was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, a well established journalist and newspaper publisher.
You can dig deeper and learn more about the Pulitzer Prize by reading these books:
- Pulitzer Prize Editorials
- Written Into History
- Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power
- An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer
Congratulations to this year’s winners!
- Fiction: for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life – A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)
- History: for a distinguished book on the history of the United States – The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Biography: for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author – Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)
- Poetry: for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American poet – The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
- Non-fiction: for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category – The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
We are also happy for the other nominated works:
- The Privileges – Fiction
- The Surrendered – Fiction
- Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South – History
- Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston – History
- The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century – Biography
- Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon – Biography
- The Common Man – Poetry
- Break the Glass – Poetry
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains – Non-fiction
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History – Non-fiction
Have YOU read any of these winning books? What did you like about them? Let this be your forum for Pulitzer Prize winner discussion…
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