LibraryThing
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Fiction: "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books). Finalists: "Tree of Smoke" by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and "Shakespeare's Kitchen" by Lore Segal (The New Press).
Drama: "August: Osage County," by Tracy Letts. Finalists: "Yellow Face" by David Henry Hwang; "Dying City" by Christopher Shinn.
History: "What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848," by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press). Finalists: "Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power" by Robert Dallek (HarperCollins); "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War" by the late David Halberstam (Hyperion).
Biography: "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father," by John Matteson (W.W. Norton). Finalists: "The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein" by Martin Duberman (Alfred A. Knopf); "The Life of Kingsley Amis" by Zachary Leader (Pantheon).
Poetry: "Time and Materials," by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) and "Failure," by Philip Schultz (Harcourt). Finalist: "Messenger: New and Selected Poems," 1976-2006" by Ellen Bryant Voigt (W.W. Norton).
General Nonfiction: "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945," by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins). "The Cigarette Century" by Allan Brandt (Basic Books); "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century" by Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(177)
-
▼
April
(15)
- ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS- poetry chapbook
- This and That...
- TOMATO GIRL
- The Tax Man Cometh
- COLDFRONT MAGAZINE: Bryan Stokes II Review of Form...
- Memory Keeper's Daughter
- 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners
- Quote from Jodi Picoult
- 13 WRITING PROMPTS
- An Update
- Happy Anniversary!!!!!!!!!
- On Cell Phones and the Dead
- Writers' Group Protests U.S. Barring of Author
- New Issue of Mimesis!
- Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta
-
▼
April
(15)