2005 Pulitzer Winners Announced
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On Monday, April 4, the winners of the 89th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama, and Music were announced at Columbia University in New York City.
The winners in the categories of Letters and Drama were:
Fiction: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (FSG)
History: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford Univ. Press)
Biography: de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Knopf)
Poetry: Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon)
General Nonfiction: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (Penguin Press)
Drama: Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley
Gilead and de Kooning are also winners of 2004 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which were announced in March. Gilead was the number-one choice of independent booksellers with Book Sense for the December 2004 Book Sense Picks list.
U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's Delights and Shadows is also a May Book Sense Notable (fliers are on their way to stores in the April Red Box), and his Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets is number two on the Spring 2005 Poetry Top Ten, in stores now.
The Pulitzer Prizes will be presented at a luncheon on May 23 at Columbia University.
For the complete list of 2005 winners go to www.pulitzer.org/.