The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. The winners in the book categories are:
Fiction: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
History: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton)
Biography: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
General Nonfiction: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, by Dan Fagin, (Bantam Books)
Poetry: 3 Sections, by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press)
Drama: The Flick, by Annie Baker
Both fiction finalists were also Publishers Lunch Buzz Books, The Son by Philipp Meyer and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, by Bob Shacochis. Other finalists included Eric Schlosser’s Command and Control.