The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in the letters and drama categories, announced yesterday:
Fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
General nonfiction: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
History: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner (Norton)
Biography: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
Drama: Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
Poetry: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
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The winners of the 2011 Lukas Prizes, which "recognize excellence in nonfiction that exemplify the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that characterized the work of the awards' Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake, J. Anthony Lukas," are:
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize ($10,000):
Winner: Eliza Griswold for The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Finalists:
Jefferson Cowie for Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (New Press)
Paul Greenberg for Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Penguin Press)
Siddartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner)
Mark Lynton History Prize ($10,000):
Winner: Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random House)
Finalist: Patrick Wilcken for Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in His Laboratory (Penguin Press)
J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award ($30,000):
Winner: Alex Tizon for Big Little Man: The Asian Male at the Dawn of the Asian Century (to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Finalists:
Joe Mozingo for The Fiddler on Pantico Run (to be published by Simon and Schuster)
Florence Williams for Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History (to be published by Norton)