Pulitzers and More Prizes Among publishers, Knopf was the big winner with three awards (fiction, history and general nonfiction): Fiction: THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy History: THE RACE BEAT, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff Biography: THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA, by Debby Applegate Poetry: NATIVE GUARD, by Natasha Trethewey Nonfiction: THE LOOMING TOWER, by Lawrence Wright They used to announce the (yawn… ) Orange Prize longlist at the London Book Fair. (Longlist is British for a collection of books we like that won’t win, except for one.) Now, with the April timing of the fair, it’s shortlist time […]
