2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners in Letters, Drama and Music

 

This year's Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday.  The prizes in Letters, Drama and Music appear here:

Fiction - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Drama -  Ruined by Lynn Nottage

History - The Hemingses of Monticello:  An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

Biography - American Lion:  Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

Poetry - The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin

General Nonfiction - Slavery by Another Name:  The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Music - Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, Virginia