The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon, with Richard Powers winning the fiction prize. Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada won the award for criticism. The rest of the winners: Fiction The Overstory, by Richard Powers (Norton) Finalists The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai (Viking) There There, by Tommy Orange (Knopf) History Frederick Douglass, by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster) Finalists American Eden, by Victoria Johnson (Liveright) Civilizing Torture, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Biography The New Negro, by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press) Finalists Proust’s Duchess, by Caroline Weber (Knopf) The Road […]
