Pulitzer Prize Winners

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson's exquisitely crafted novel set in North Korea has been described as part thriller, part coming-of-age-novel, part romance. The recipient of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Orphan Master's Son provides a daring entry for western readers into the extremes of totalitarianism, but also startling moments of beauty. Buy Now

Embers of War

Fredrik Logevall

This year's history winner, Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall, offers a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war in Vietnam. Buy Now

The Black Count

Tom Reiss

Tom Reiss's compelling account of the life of the real Count of Monte Cristo, a forgotten swashbuckling hero of mixed race, takes this year's Pulitzer Prize for biography. Buy Now

Stag's Leap

Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds's unflinching examination of love, sorrow, and the limits of self-knowedge -- based on the poet's own divorce -- earns this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Buy Now

Devil in the Grove

Gilbert King

In 1949 in Groveland, Florida, four black men were falsely accused of rape. In Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King chronicles not just the grotesque racial injustice but also the extraordinary activism on the part of Thurgood Marshall -- "Mr. Civil Rights," as he was known -- that led, ultimately, to the dawning of a new America. Buy Now