The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon, with Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys winning the fiction prize. Whitehead becomes the fourth author to win the prize twice, along with Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike. The rest of the winners and finalists: Fiction The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) Finalists The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner (FSG) The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett (Harper) History Sweet Taste of Liberty, W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press) Finalists Race for Profit, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (University of North Carolina Press) The End of the Myth, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books) Biography […]
