Sunday, November 24

Pulitzer Prize

1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1997 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Tale of an American DreamerSteven Millhauser Martin DresslerYoung Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldl...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe ManikinJoanna ScottAmazonUnlocking the Air and Other StoriesUrsula K. Le GuinAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1997 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerNo book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexitie...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistFame and FollyCynthia OzickAmazonThe Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and BeyondSamuel G. FreedmanAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1997 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1997 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerOriginal Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the ConstitutionJack N. RakoveFrom abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from incept...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistFounding Mothers and FathersMary Beth NortonAmazonThe Battle for ChristmasStephen NissenbaumAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1997 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1997 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerAlive Together: New and Selected PoemsLisel MuellerIn a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by langu...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistThe Figured WheelRobert PinskyAmazonThe Willow GroveLaurie SheckAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1998 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerPersonal HistoryKatharine GrahamAs seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistAn Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural BoyhoodJimmy CarterAmazonJohann Sebastian Bach: The Learned MusicianChristoph WolffAmazonSaint-Exupery: A BiographyStacy SchiffAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1998 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerAmerican PastoralPhilip RothA former athletic star, devoted family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory, Seymour "Swede" Levov finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his beloved daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father'...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistBear and His Daughter: StoriesRobert StoneAmazonUnderworldDon DeLilloAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1998 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistHow the Mind WorksStephen PinkerAmazonInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest DisasterJon KrakauerAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1998 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerSummer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and ReligionEdward J. LarsonThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious cou...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistBig Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of AmericaJ. Anthony LukasAmazonCivic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. HistoryRogers SmithAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1998 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistDesireFrank BidartAmazonThe VigilC.K. WilliamsAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1999 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1999 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerLindberghA. Scott BergLindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic symbol of the new aviation age. However, tragedy struck in 1932, where his ba...Amazon