Pulitzer Prize Nominees and Winners

Newspaper publisher, Joseph Pulitzer endowed this annual prize to recognize distinguished contributions made in the fields of American journalism, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music and photography. Here is a list of the fiction and non-fiction winners and finalists. All of these titles are owned by the Glenview Public Library.
Fiction Winner
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

Fiction Finalists
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

History Winner
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall

History Finalists
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 by Bernard Bailyn

Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt

Biography or Autobiography Winner
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Biography or Autobiography Finalists
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw

General Non-fiction Winner
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

General Non-fiction Finalists
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell


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