Andrew Sean Greer Wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer jury named Andrew Sean Greer‘s Less this year’s winner in the fiction category.

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

Fiction:

• Winner: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
• The Idiot by Elif Batuman (read not one, but two Millions’ reviews)

 

General Nonfiction:

• Winner: Locking Up Our Own by James Foreman Jr.
• Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen
• The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum
  
  

 

History:

• Winner: The Gulf:The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
• Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein 
• Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America by Steven J. Ross

 

Biography or Autobiography:

• Winner: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
• Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell 
• Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison

Poetry:

• • Winner: Half-light by Frank Bidart (Read about the poet IRL)
  • semiautomatic by Evie Shockley
  • Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith (Our interview with Smith)

 

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