Pulitzer Prize Winners 2013

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced its annual list of winners on April 15th! We’re pleased to say we have many of the Letters winners living on our shelves, and of course nearly all of them are available throughout our county-wide system. How many of the winners and finalists have you read?

Fiction winner
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

Fiction nominees

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

History winner
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and theMaking of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall

History nominees

The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America:The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 by Bernard Bailyn

Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt

Biography/Autobiography winner
The Black Count: Glory,Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Biography/Autobiography nominees

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of anAmerican Masterpiece by Michael Gorra

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times ofJoseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw

Poetry winner
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds

Poetry nominees

Collected Poems by the late Jack Gilbert

*The Abundance of Nothing by Bruce Weigl

Nonfiction winner
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall,the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

Nonfiction nominees

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in aMumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell

* The Abundance of Nothing is the only title to which we do not have direct access, but no worries — it’s still available through Interlibrary Loan!