The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama

-- Publishers Weekly, 4/20/2009 2:33:00 PM

Adding a Pulitzer to her National Book Award, Annette Gordon-Reed has been awarded the prize for her monumental historical work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Norton). The book also won the 2009 National Book Award for nonfiction. Random House won three award and is moving up the pub date for the trade paperback edition of Jon Meacham's American Lion to the end of April from its original release date of June.

Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama were also awarded to Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout for fiction (Random House); American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham for biography (Random House); The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin for poetry (Copper Canyon Press); Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon for general nonfiction (Doubleday); and Ruined by Lynn Nottage for drama (Theatre Communications Group). A complete list of the Pulitzer Prizes is located on the Pulitzer Web site.