I’m a few days tardy on this announcement, but months early reading it! Paul Harding’s Tinkers was a gentle, yet powerful masterpiece of prose. Read my review of Tinkers! Click for an interesting article on Tinker‘s journey to stardom.
Curious about the other Pulitzer winners? Here’s a list, courtesy of Omnivoracious…
- Fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding (Finalists: Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet and In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin)
- History: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (Finalists: Fordlandia by Greg Grandin and Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood)
- Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (Finalists: Cheever by Blake Bailey and Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper Jr.)
- General Nonfiction: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (Finalists: How Markets Fail by John Cassidy and The Evolution of God by Robert Wright)
- Poetry: Versed by Rae Armantrout (Finalists: Tryst by Angie Estes and Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia Perillo)
- Drama: Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Finalists: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph, and In the Next Room or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl)
