April 19, 2016 | daviscrl
This year marks the 100th awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes. The 2016 winners include:
Winner of the Fiction Category, this is a gripping spy novel, a moving story of love and friendship, and a layered portrayal of a young man drawn into extreme politics,The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
Winner of the Drama Category, Lin-Manuel Miranda's landmark American musical about our founding fathers is a unique blend of history and hip-hop. The New York Times review stated that the show moved "to a new, fierce, liberating beat that never seemed to let up. “Hamilton” makes us feel the unstoppable, urgent rhythm of a nation being born."
Winner of the History Category, this brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored.
Winner of the Biography Category, Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of the exacting, little understood art of surfing.
Winner of the General Nonfiction Category, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today's most dangerous extremist threat.