Pulitzers

Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

History
What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe

Biography
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, by John Matteson

Poetry
Time and Materials, by Robert Hass and Failure, by Philip Schultz

General Nonfiction
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, by Saul Friedlander

Tracy Letts won the drama prize for August: Osage County and Bob Dylan was given a special citation in music.