Cormac McCarthy and Natasha Trethewey, both recent VQR contributors, have been honored with the Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and Poetry, respectively. These are great writers with great books; it’s always nice to see this kind of recognition for deserving books. The full list of letters and drama winners is:
Fiction: The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
Poetry: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
Drama: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
History: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)
Biography: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
General Nonfiction: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)