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Pulitzer Prize Winners 2018

April 17, 2018 | Patton

You can discover all of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning materials as well as the finalists in the Letters, Drama, and Music category at Canton Public Library. 

Winners:

  • Fiction: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  • History: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
  • Biography: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
  • Poetry: Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
  • General Nonfiction: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.
  • Music: DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar
Less : a novel by Andrew Sean Greer

Best in Fiction

In the distance by Hernan Diaz

Finalist in Fiction

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Finalist in Fiction

The Gulf : the making of an American sea by Jack E. Davis
Also available in: e-book

Best in History

Fear city : New York's fiscal crisis and the rise of austerity politics by Kim Phillips-Fein

Finalist in History

Hitler in Los Angeles : how Jews foiled Nazi plots against Hollywood and America by Steven Joseph Ross

Finalist in History

Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Also available in: audiobook

Best in Biography

Richard Nixon : the life by John A. Farrell

Finalist in Biography

Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character by Kay R Jamison

Finalist in Biography

Half-light : collected poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart

Best in Poetry

Locking up our own : crime and punishment in black America by James Forman

Best in General Nonfiction

Notes on a foreign country [electronic resource] by Suzy Hansen

Finalist in General Nonfiction

The evolution of beauty : how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- and us by Richard O. Prum
Also available in: e-book

Finalist in General Nonfiction

Damn [sound recording] by Kendrick Lamar
Also available in: e-music

Best in Music