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And the Winners Are….

Today is Pulitzer Prize announcement day. The big news will no doubt be the decision not to award a prize in fiction for the first time since 1977. But of greater interest to this blog are three of the awards that were given. The Pulitzer Prize in Biography went to John Lewis Gaddis’s George F. Kennan: An American Life.The Pulitzer Prize in History went to the late Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which, in an unusual move, was originally nominated for the biography prize and moved over to History by the Pulitzer Board. And the winner for Read more