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Pulitzer Prize

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1999 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe HoursMichael CunninghamIn The Hours, Michael Cunningham—widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation—draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of l...Amazon1999 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistCloudsplitterRussell BanksAmazonThe Poisonwood BibleBarbara KingsolverAmazon
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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1999 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerAnnals of the Former WorldJohn McPheeAs clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction....Amazon1999 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistCrime and Punishment in AmericaElliott CurrieAmazonThe Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They DoJudith Rich HarrisAmazon
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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1999 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1999 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerGotham: A History of New York City to 1898Edwin G. Burrows and Mike WallaceTo European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, ...Amazon1999 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistIn a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and SurvivalPaula Mitchell MarksAmazonThis New Ocean: The Story of the First Space AgeWilliam E. BurrowsAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2000 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2000 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerVera, Mrs. Vladimir NabokovStacy SchiffNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both “monumental” (The Boston Globe) and “utterly romantic” (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff’s Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of...Amazon2000 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistThe First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin FranklinH.W. BrandsAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2000 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2000 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerInterpreter of MaladiesJhumpa LahiriNavigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorke...Amazon2000 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistClose Range: Wyoming StoriesAnnie ProulxAmazonWaitingHa JinAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2000 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2000 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIJohn W. DowerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering afterma...Amazon2000 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistLiving on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory BirdsScott WeidensaulAmazonThe Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate TheoryBrian GreeneAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2000 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2000 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerFreedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945David M. KennedyBetween 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depress...Amazon2000 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistInto the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania FrontierJames H. MerrellAmazonThe Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-AmericaKevin PhillipsAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2000 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2000 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerRepairC. K. WilliamsThe eighth book--and the most various yet--by a major American poet. With his two previous books, a generous Selected Poems and The Vigil, C. K. Williams received great acclaim, including the PEN/Voelcker Award and the prestigious Berlin Prize...Amazon2000 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistElegy for the Southern DrawlRodney JonesAmazonMidnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998Adrienne RichAmazon
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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2001 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2001 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerW. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963David Levering LewisThe second part of a biography of the African American author and scholar chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana....Amazon2001 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistFrederick DouglassWilliam S. McFeelyAmazonGenet: A BiographyEdmund WhiteAmazonThe Seven Mountains of Thomas MertonMichael MottAmazon
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