After being shut out of the IMPAC shortlist, women sweep the Pulitzer fiction finalists and end The Tournament of Books Pulitzer streak. Taking home the prize is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, a book we noticed climbing the ranks of our Top Ten, even though we haven’t written much about it. Here are this year’s Pulitzer winners and finalists with excerpts where available:
Fiction
- Winner: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout – (a Year in Reading pick, excerpt)
- Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (excerpt)
- All Souls by Christine Schutt (Christine Schutt participates in our Year in Reading)
General Nonfiction:
- Winner: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (excerpt)
- Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman (excerpt)
- The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock (excerpt)
History:
- Winner: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (National Book Award winner, excerpt)
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust – (National Book Award Finalist, excerpt)
- The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot
Biography:
- Winner: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Kevin’s review, excerpt)
- Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands (excerpt)
- The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll – excerpt
Winners and finalists in other categories are available at the Pulitzer Web site.
