—A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book
2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners
History:
Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Biography:
Jon Meacham
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Fiction:
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
General Nonfiction:
Douglas A Blackmon
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II
Drama:
Lynn Nottage
Ruined
Poetry:
W.S Merwin
The Shadow of Sirius
