Pulitzer Prize winners announced

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced this week and here are some of the notable winners and finalists for 2007:

Fiction (distinguished fiction by an American author)

Winner: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Finalist: After This by Alice McDermott
Finalist: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

History (distinguished book upon the history of the United States)

Winner: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Finalist: Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbell
Finalist: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author

Winner: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward
Beecher by Debby Applegate
Finalist: John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur H. Cash
Finalist: Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw

Distinguished book of nonfiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category

Winner: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Finalist: Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley
Finalist: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

More winners can be found at the Pulitzer Prize website.
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