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April 23 – April 30, 2009 Edition
Pulitzer Announces
Prize Winners in Letters
NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/04/20/09–The Pulitzer Prize Board today announced its 2009 winners in Letters at Columbia University. Authors from Random House, Inc. won three of the five Pulitzer categories:
Fiction: OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Biography: AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
General Nonfiction: SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
Other winners in the Letters category were:
Drama – Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History – The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
Poetry – The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
In the eleven years since Random House, Inc. came together as a merged company eighteen of our books have won Pulitzers–a feat unmatched by another trade-book publishing company.
