Pulitzer Prize Winners

The Pulitzer Prize is a yearly award honoring excellence in journalism and the arts - a prize that has been in existence since 1917.

Past honorees in the Fiction category include such greats as The Magnificent Ambersons, The Age of Innocence (my favorite book!!), The Good Earth, Gone with the Wind, and Our Town.



Of particular note in this category is 2007's winner, The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Haunting is the best word to describe this book and I am still lost for words on how McCarthy was able to craft such elegant prose from a story that was so minimal and wordless.




On the non-fiction side of the arts:

2010...
Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamed, using his skills as an economist and historian, traces the origins of the greatest economic disaster back to the hands of just a few bankers. Yet these few toppled the economies of the Western World and, Ahamed asserts, brought about WWII.

2008...
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America

Daniel Walker Howe's revolutionary understanding of the creation of modern-day America. How did we turn from a pioneer's outpost to one of the most industrial countries? That question provides the backbone to Howe's history.

2007...
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

Though overshadowed by his more famous siblings (Harriet Beecher Stowe, for one), Henry Ward Beecher founded modern Christianity. By replacing God-fearing sermons with a focus on love and mercy, Beecher's influence continues to be felt in sermons every Sunday. Outside of the pulpit, his life held some demons which Debby Applegate chronicles in this fast-paced tale.

These are just a few examples we have in the library of Pulitzer Prize winners.

For more information about the prize itself, click HERE.

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