This year’s Pulitzer winner for fiction has gone to a book from Bellevue Literary Press, an “unlikely” operation that runs out of Bellevue, the famous New York psych hospital (the New York Times wrote up the press in 2007). Rounding out the fiction finalists is an effort from another small press, the venerable Soft Skull, and a much praised short story collection .
Here are this year’s Pulitzer winners and finalists with excerpts where available:
Fiction
- Winner: Tinkers by Paul Harding – (excerpt)
- Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet (Lydia Millet participates in our Year in Reading)
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (a Year in Reading selection)
General Nonfiction:
- Winner: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David Hoffman (excerpt)
- How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright (excerpt)
History:
- Winner: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (excerpt)
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin – (excerpt)
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood (excerpt)
Biography:
- Winner: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (excerpt)
- Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (excerpt)
- Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper, Jr. – excerpt
Winners and finalists in other categories are available at the Pulitzer Web site.
