2006 Pulitzer Winners Announced

Among the winners in the category of Letters & Drama are:


Fiction:
March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) From Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, and has added adult resonance to portray the moral complexity of war and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism.(Pb $14)
Fiction winner, March, was the number-one March 2005 Book Sense Pick in hardcover and a February 2006 Notable in paperback. In her nomination of the title for the 2005 Picks, Sandi Torkildson of A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin, said, "The war experiences of the March girls' absent father in Alcott's Little Women form the storyline of this powerful historical novel set during the Civil War.

Biography:

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf) A rich evocation of America in mid-century and a compelling portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, a man shaped by, or helped to shape, its major events--the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. (due in paperback April 2006- $17.95)


History:

Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press) Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and other key players, Oshinsky paints a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on national obsessions and fears. (Due in paperback Aug 2006 $16.95)

Poetry: Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press) In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. (PB $16.95)

General Nonfiction:
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt) This unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya is a major work of history detailing the prisons, work camps, and terror that the British imposed on millions just after World War II. It has chilling parallels to America's own imperial project. (Pb $17)

This year, no winner was named in the Drama category. Awards will be presented on May 22 at a luncheon at Columbia University.

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