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Pulitzer books announced
The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and some deserving books took home ten thousand dollar awards.
Cormac McCarthy won the prize for fiction with “The Road” (Alfred A. Knopf). Already boosted by Oprah, “The Road” is certainly deserving of the award. Other nominees were “After This” by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and “The Echo Maker” by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The McDermott book would have also been a great choice. I have not read the Powers novel.
For distinguished biography or autobiography the award was won by Debby Applegate for “The Most Famous Man in America:The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher” (Doubleday). I was impressed by the selection of this book, which is just now coming out in paperback, as it was a bit of a sleeper. The favorite, “Andrew Carnegie” by David Nasaw (The Penguin Press) failed to win. I was relieved. The Carnegie book put me to sleep more nights than I can count.
The non-fiction winner was “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf). I thought another nominee, “Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq” by Thomas Ricks (The Penguin Press) was slightly superior to “The Looming Tower” but hey, Alfred A. Knopf puts out one superb book after another so I won’t argue with that choice.
For history the winner was “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation” By Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf). I guess Knopf won the trifecta (note*There is an entire article in the New York Times Wednesday about the Knopf “trifecta.”). My sentimental favorite was “Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War” by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking). I like Philbrick’s stuff and I’m sure he’ll write another one that could win in the future.
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By vick mickunas
April 20, 2007 10:06 PM | Link to this
OK, what’s your book?By John Callahan
April 18, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this
I am a local guy who just published my first book Zen and the Art of Whittling. Please take a look at it. It is a decent book and I believe it will have mass appeal.