Bibliofuture writes, “The books that won the Pulitzer Prize were announced today. You can see the complete list that includes newspapers and articles that won here. Among the book and book-related winners:
Geraldine Brooks won for fiction for her March (Viking), which focuses on the life of the often-absent father, John March, in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.David M. Oshinsky won for history for his Polio: An American Story (Oxford University Press).Caroline Elkins won in general nonfiction for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Holt).
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin won for biography or autobiography for their American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf).Claudia Emerson won for poetry for Late Wife (Louisiana State University Press).
Links to books
If you want to see the covers or reviews. Here are links to the books at Amazon.
Pulitzer for General nonfiction
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story Of Britain’s Gulag In Kenya
http://tinyurl.com/lw544
Pulitzer for Biography
American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
http://tinyurl.com/qwlf4
Pulitzer for History
Polio : An American Story
http://tinyurl.com/l72lf
Pulitzer for Novel
March
http://tinyurl.com/mx273
Pulitzer for Poetry
Late Wife: Poems
http://tinyurl.com/zvlza
Libraries we love
Our St. Anthony branch is included. It is a small but beautiful Carnegie library that is very popular with patrons.
http://www.sppl.org/locations/stanthony.html
Libraries We Love
Just a note that it also includes several Canadian libraries.