The 2014 Pulitzer for Fiction Goes to Donna Tartt’s Goldfinch

Following last year’s win for The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson’s novel of North Korea, the Pulitzer jury named Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch this year’s winner in the fiction category. The Son by Philipp Meyer and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis were the other finalists for the fiction prize.

Here are this year’s Pulitzer winners and finalists with bonus links:

Fiction:

• Winner:  The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (excerpt, Adam Dalva’s essay on the novel, casting the upcoming movie)
• The Son by Philipp Meyer (our review, our interview with Meyer)
• The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis (excerpt, an essay by Martha Anne Toll)

    

General Nonfiction:

• Winner: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
• The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass (excerpt)
• The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan (excerpt)

 

History:

• Winner: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 by Alan Taylor (review)
  
• A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America by Jacqueline Jones  (excerpt)
• Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser  (excerpt

 

Biography:

• Winner: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall 
  
• Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch (excerpt)
  
• Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber 

 

Winners and finalists in other categories are available at the Pulitzer Web site.