The winners and finalists for the Pultizer Prize were announced today. I had recently speculated that The Road wasn’t a “typical Pulitzer candidate” in that the Pulitzer typically recognizes books that are less post-apocalyptic, but The Road suddenly appears unstoppable. (Note as well that we now officially have a book that was picked by Oprah before it won the Pulitzer. I bet that surprises some people.) Here are this year’s Pulitzer winners and finalists with excerpts where available:
Fiction:
- Winner: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- After This by Alice McDermott – excerpt
- The Echo Maker by Richard Powers – excerpt
General Nonfiction:
- Winner: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright – excerpt
- Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks – excerpt
History:
- Winner: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff – excerpt
- Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbell
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick – excerpt
Biography:
- Winner: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate – excerpt
- John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur H. Cash – excerpt (pdf)
- Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
Winners and finalists in other categories are available at the Pulitzer Web site.
