The Pulitzer Prizes:

For fiction: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

For biography: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro. This is the third volume of Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson and is Caro's second Pulitzer. He won in 1975 for The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.

For history: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson

For general nonfiction: 'A Problem From Hell': America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

For poetry: Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon