Biblio File
And the Winner Is ... Pulitzer 2016
The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer, an Hungarian-born American who made a forture as a newspaper publisher. Here are this year's winners and finalists in the category of Letters, Drama, and Music.
Winnner for Fiction
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Finalists
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Maud's Line by Margaret Verble
Winner for Drama
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Finalists
Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
The Humans by Stephen Karam
Winner for History
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles
Finalists
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War by Brian Matthew Jordan
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen
Winner for Biography or Memoir
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Finalists
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles
The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander
Winner for Poetry
Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
Finalists
Alive: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Willis
Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
Winner for General Nonfiction
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
Finalists
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power
Winner for Music
In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill
Finalists
The Blind Banister by Timo Andres
The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor by Carter Pann
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