Pulitzer Prize Winners

History

Book Cover Image. Title: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Author: by Manning  Marable

Malcolm X

Manning Marable

The winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for History, Manning Marable's magisterial -- and surprising -- biography of Malcolm X promises the last word on a controversial American icon. Buy Now

Biography

Book Cover Image. Title: George F. Kennan: An American Life, Author: by John Lewis Gaddis

George F. Kennan

John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis's sweeping biography of cold war architect George F. Kennan has won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The book, which was begun nearly 30 years ago, is composed from extensive interviews with Kennan as well as complete access to his diaries and other personal papers. It affords unparalleled insight into the rich inner world of a man whose life both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned. Buy Now

Poetry

Book Cover Image. Title: Life on Mars, Author: by Tracy K.  Smith

Life on Mars

Tracy K. Smith

Hopscotching from pop culture to history, elegy to anecdote, the poet Tracy K. Smith juxtaposes a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers against the world we live in -- a world of violence and injustice, but also terrifying beauty. Life on Mars is the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Buy Now

General Nonfiction

Book Cover Image. Title: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Author: by Stephen  Greenblatt

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt's innovative, thrilling tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance has won this year's Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Buy Now

Fiction Prize

In a surprising turn of events, there was no award for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year. The three finalists were: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, the posthumously published The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, and Swamplandia by Karen Russell.