2006 Pulitzer Winners Announced

The 90th annual winners of the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama, and Music were announced on Monday, April 17, by Columbia University.

Among the winners in the category of Letters & Drama are:

• Fiction: March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
  
  
• History: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)
  
  
• Biography: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)
  
  
• Poetry: Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
  
  
• General Nonfiction: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)

This year, no winner was named in the Drama category. Awards will be presented on May 22 at a luncheon at Columbia University.

Fiction winner, March, was the number-one March 2005 Book Sense Pick in hardcover and a February 2006 Notable in paperback. In her nomination of the title for the 2005 Picks, Sandi Torkildson of A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin, said, "The war experiences of the March girls' absent father in Alcott's Little Women form the storyline of this powerful historical novel set during the Civil War.