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The authors Geraldine Brooks, David M. Oshinsky, Caroline Elkins, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin were awarded the Pulitzer Prize today.
The 2006 Pulitzer Prizewinners in Fiction, History, Biography, Poetry and General Nonfiction were announced by Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, which administers the prize. The Pulitzers will be handed out at a luncheon at Columbia on May 22.
The 90th Annual Pulitzer Prizewinners:
FICTION
March, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
HISTORY
Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)
BIOGRAPHY
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)
POETRY
Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)
The 2006 Pulitzer Prizewinners in Fiction, History, Biography, Poetry and General Nonfiction were announced by Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, which administers the prize. The Pulitzers will be handed out at a luncheon at Columbia on May 22.
The 90th Annual Pulitzer Prizewinners:
FICTION
March, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
HISTORY
Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)
BIOGRAPHY
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)
POETRY
Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)