Anthony Doerr, Gregory Pardlo, & Elizabeth Kolbert Among Pulitzer Prize Winners

April 22, 2015

The 99th annual Pulitzer Prize winners in Letters, Drama, and Music, as well as in Journalism, were announced today by Columbia University. Each prize comes with a cash award of $10,000.

The winners in the arts category include Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner) for fiction; Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Between Riverside and Crazy for drama; Elizabeth A. Fenn’s Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People (Hill and Wang) for history; David I. Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (Random House) for biography; Gregory Pardlo’s Digest (Four Way Books) for poetry; Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt) for general nonfiction; and Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields (Red Poppy Music/G. Schirmer, Inc.) for music.

In journalism, both writers and publications as a whole received awards in the following categories: “Public Service,” “Breaking News Reporting,” “Investigative Reporting,” “Explanatory Reporting,” “Local Reporting,” “National Reporting,” “International Reporting,” “Feature Writing,” “Commentary,” “Criticism,” “Editorial Writing,” “Editorial Cartooning,” “Breaking News Photography,” and “Feature Photography.”

The awards will be officially presented at a luncheon on May 28 at Columbia University.

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