Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, already among the most popular and celebrated novels of the past year, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. One of the country’s top colonial historians, Alan Taylor, has won his second Pulitzer, for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War In Virginia.
Annie Baker’s The Flick won the Pulitzer for drama, a play set in a movie theatre that was called a “thoughtful drama with well-crafted characters” which created “lives rarely seen on the stage.”
The award for general nonfiction went to Dan Fagin’s Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation,
