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The winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, and General Nonfiction were announced at Columbia University earlier today.
Elizabeth Strout was awarded the Pulitzer for Fiction for her collection of quiet tales of ordinary suffering in coastal Maine, Olive Kitteridge.
The Pulitzer for Drama went to Lynn Nottage's "Ruined," set in the war-torn Congo.
Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family took the Pulitzer for History, and Douglas A. Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II took the honors for General Nonfiction.
Jon Meacham's biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion, won in the Biography category, and the Pulitzer for Poetry went to W.S. Merwin's The Shadow of Sirius.
The finalists for each category were also announced:
Fiction
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdich and All Souls by Christine Schutt
Drama
"Becky Shaw" by Gina Gionfriddo and "In the Heights" by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes
History
The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust and The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot
Biography or Autobiography
Traitor to His Class: The Priviledged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands and The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
Poetry
Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart and What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems by Ruth Stone
General Nonfiction
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman and The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock
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