Monday, April 12, 2010

2010 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama, and Music

The winners in Letters, Drama, and Music are:
Fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding. Finalists: Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet; In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin.
Drama: Next to Normal music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Finalists: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph, In the Next Room by Sarah Ruhl.
History: Lords of Financeby Liaquat Ahamed. Finalists: Fordlandia by Greg Grandin,Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood.
Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles. Finalists: Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper, Jr.,Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey.
Poetry: Versed by Rae Armantrout. Finalists: Tryst by Angie Estes, Inseminating the Elephants by Lucia Perillo.
General Nonfiction: The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman. Finalists: How Markets Fail by John Cassidy, The Evolution of God by Robert Wright.
Music: Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon. Finalists: String Quartet No. 3 by Fred Lerdahl, Steel Hammer by Julia Wolfe.

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