Saturday, December 28

Pulitzer Prize

2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2007 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe RoadCormac McCarthyWith an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves s...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAfter ThisAlice McDermottAmazonThe Echo MakerRichard PowersAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2007 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2007 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence WrightTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of '...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistCrazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health MadnessPete EarleyAmazonFiasco: The American Military Adventure in IraqThomas E. RicksAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2007 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2007 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Race BeatGene Roberts and Hank KlibanoffAn unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s. Roberts and Klib...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistMayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and WarNathaniel PhilbrickAmazonMiddle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005James T. CampbellAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2007 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2007 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerNative GuardNatasha TretheweyIncluded in this audio-enhanced edition are recordings of the U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reading Native Guard in its entirety, as well as an interview with the poet from the HMH podcast The Poetic Voice, in which she recounts what it was like to ...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistInterrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004David WojahnAmazonThe Republic of PoetryMartín EspadaAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2008 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerEden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherJohn MattesonWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from hi...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistAndrew CarnegieDavid NasawAmazonLouis Armstrong: Master of ModernismThomas BrothersAmazonThe Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve CollAmazonTraitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano RooseveltH.W. BrandsAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2008 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot DíazLiving with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by the author o...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistShakespeare's KitchenLore SegalAmazonTree of SmokeDenis JohnsonAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2008 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945Saul FriedlanderThe enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily o...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistThe Cigarette CenturyAllan M. BrandtAmazonThe Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex RossAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2008 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerWhat Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848Daniel Walker HoweThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistNixon and Kissinger: Partners in PowerRobert DallekAmazonThe Coldest Winter: America and the Korean WarDavid HalberstamAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2008 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerFailurePhilip SchultzFailure is a superb collection, “full of slashing language, good rhythms [and] surprises” (Norman Mailer). “Philip Schultz’s poems have long since earned their own place in American poetry....AmazonTime and MaterialsRobert HassThe poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically var...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistMessenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006Ellen Bryant VoigtAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2009 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2009 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerAmerican Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White HouseJon MeachamChronicles the life and career of Andrew Jackson, a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history....Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyAmazonMurrow: His Life and TimesA.M. SperberAmazon