Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

The Pulitzer Prize committee has just announced the new prize-winners.  This will be huge news for each of these authors, and their respective publishers.  (Random House picked up two of these sales boosting awards.)  They are:

Fiction - Olive Kitteredge, by Elizabeth Strout

Drama - Ruined, by Lynn Nottage

History - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed 

Biography - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham

General Non-Fiction - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas Blackmon

Other winners and finalists are here.  

Image: Elizabeth Strout

Comments

[Alfred]

Ah, many, many congratulations to Annette Gordon-Reed! Very exciting news for her and the entire community who work in race and history.

[Alfred]

And to Doug Blackmon, too. We spoke a little about Slavery by Another Name here:
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2008/05/blackmon-on-con.html

[Tim Zinnecker]

It would be rather interesting to compare winning bid prices for these books on eBay over the last three weeks with the next three weeks. One would expect a "bump" in price, particularly for first editions.

I have Strout's earlier book "Abide With Me" on my shelf (along with at least 100 other unread novels). Now I'm tempted to expedite its review. I feel sorta like an articles editor!

[Leslie Friedman]

I was fortunate enough to see "Ruined" a month or so ago at Manhattan Theatre Club. It is an outstanding piece--beautifully written, emotion- and thought-provoking, and, in the production I saw, incredibly well acted. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

[Alfred]

Two more things: I see from the Chronicle that Elizabeth Strout is a professor at Queens University Charlotte, NC:
http://www.queens.edu/news_detail.asp?press_id=2792&section=queens

Also, she has a law degree from Syracuse University.

http://blog.syracuse.com/shelflife/2009/04/syracuse_university_alumna_win.html

Quite a year for lawyers and Pulitzers!

[john swift]

What's up with that second sentence in Abide with Me? Did some editor miss something?

[air jordan 13]

Studies this matter, lacks the time, but is lacks diligently#.