Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Jennifer Egan Wins Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

By Jason Boog on Galley Cat, April 18, 2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf) has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Other finalists for the fiction prize included: The Privileges by Jonathan Dee and The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee.

Here are the rest of the Letters, Drama and Music winners:

GENERAL NONFICTION – “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)

POETRY – “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems” by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)

BIOGRAPHY – “Washington: A Life” by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)

DRAMA – “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris

HISTORY – “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)

MUSIC – “Madame White Snake’” by Zhou Long, premiered on February 26, 2010 by the Boston Opera at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

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