That's the topic of much conversation around The Book Stall over the past couple of days--the decision by the 2011-2012 Pulitzer Prize Board that left a blank "no award" at the very top of its "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. For the first time in 35 years, no Pulitzer Prize was given in fiction, and what a reaction that generated!
Authors, publishers, bookstores, and book lovers immediately started naming their own Pulitzer merit-worthy novels. Publishers Weekly came up with such titles as Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding and Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic. Doubleday asked Twitterers to choose their own winners, and The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta and The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides topped that list.
History:
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable
Biography or Autobiography:
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
General Nonfiction:
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Poetry:
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
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