NEWSMAKERS | Pulitzers announced
NEWSMAKERS
Pulitzers announced
NEW YORK
Jennifer Egan’s novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, honored for its “big- hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.”
Egan, 48, a native of Chicago, has been highly praised for her searching and unconventional narratives about modern angst and identity.
The play “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris, which examines race relations and the effects of modern gentrification, won the drama prize.
The Pulitzer for history was awarded to “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner.
Ron Chernow, a New York-based historian, won the Pulitzer for biography for “Washington: A Life,” about the nation’s first president.
Kay Ryan’s “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems” won the poetry prize.
The general nonfiction prize was given to “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at Columbia.
The music prize went to Zhou Long for “Madame White Snake.”
Associated Press