The Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday. Among the book and book-related winners:
Edmund S. Morgan won a special citation "for a creative and deeply influential body of work as an American historian that spans the last half century." Titles by the emeritus professor of history at Yale include Benjamin Franklin, American Slavery, American Freedom, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789, The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea, among others.
In the newspaper awards, New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen won for national reporting for their stories on the Bush Administration's secret, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens in the U.S.
Risen is the author of State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration (Free Press, $26, 0743270665), which came out early this year. Lichtblau is the author of Bush Justice, which Sourcebooks will publish in September 2007.
In addition, Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who won for beat reporting for her series on the government's counterterrorism campaign abroad, including the network of secret prisons in Eastern Europe, is the author of The Mission: Waging War and Keeping the Peace with America's Military.
- Geraldine Brooks won for fiction for her March (Viking), which focuses on the life of the often-absent father, John March, in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
- David M. Oshinsky won for history for his Polio: An American Story (Oxford University Press).
- Caroline Elkins won in general nonfiction for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Holt).
- Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin won for biography or autobiography for their American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf).
- Claudia Emerson won for poetry for Late Wife (Louisiana State University Press).
Edmund S. Morgan won a special citation "for a creative and deeply influential body of work as an American historian that spans the last half century." Titles by the emeritus professor of history at Yale include Benjamin Franklin, American Slavery, American Freedom, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789, The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea, among others.
In the newspaper awards, New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen won for national reporting for their stories on the Bush Administration's secret, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens in the U.S.
Risen is the author of State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration (Free Press, $26, 0743270665), which came out early this year. Lichtblau is the author of Bush Justice, which Sourcebooks will publish in September 2007.
In addition, Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who won for beat reporting for her series on the government's counterterrorism campaign abroad, including the network of secret prisons in Eastern Europe, is the author of The Mission: Waging War and Keeping the Peace with America's Military.