Columbia University announced this year’s round of Pulitzer Prize winners yesterday, and a number of outstanding books brought home top honors this year.Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction last month, took home the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The other finalists in the Fiction category were “The Privileges” by Jonathan Dee and “The Surrendered” by Chang-rae Lee.
“The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner won the Pulitzer for History.
Other finalists in History were “Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South” by Stephanie McCurry, and “Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston” by Michael Rawson.
“Washington: A Life” by Ron Chernow won the Pulitzer for Biography.
Other finalists included “The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century” by Alan Brinkley and “Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon” by Michael O’Brien.
“The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee won for General Nonfiction.
Other finalists in the General Nonfiction category included “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain” by Nicholas Carr and “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History” by S.C. Gwynne.
Last April, I posted a complete list of the all-time winners in the Fiction category. Today, I give you a list of the all-time winners in the History category. Here they are:
1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand
1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 by James Ford Rhodes
1919: No award given
1920: The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith
1921: The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
1922: The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
1923: The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
1924: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain
1925: History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson
1926: A History of the United States by Edward Channing
1927: Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1928: Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington
1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 by Fred Albert Shannon
1930: The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne
1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
1932: My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing
1933: The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner
1934: The People's Choice by Herbert Agar
1935: The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews
1936: A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin
1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
1938: The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck
1939: A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott
1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen
1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech
1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
1944: The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
1945: Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal
1946: The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1947: Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
1948: Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
1949: The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
1950: Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 by R. Carlyle Buley
1952: The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
1953: The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
1956: The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 by George F. Kennan
1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
1966: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
1970: Present At The Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1972: Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
1976: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1980: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
1984: No award given
1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce
1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 by Taylor Branch
1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1994: No award given
1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 by David M. Kennedy
2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 by Rick Atkinson
2004: A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2006: Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
2007: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2008: What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
2011: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
In the end, how many of the books mentioned above have you had a chance to read? What did you think about them? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.
Pulizters were awarded in a number of other categories yesterday, including drama, poetry and music as well as a slate of journalism awards. For more information about the winners and finalists in these categories, visit www.pulitzer.org.
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