Feminism play Liberation and first world war novel Angel Down among Pulitzer winners
Summary
The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to various works, including Daniel Kraus’s novel Angel Down, about World War I told in one long sentence, and Bess Wohl’s play Liberation, which explores feminist groups from the 1970s. Other winners included books about American history, poetry, memoir, and music.Key Facts
- Daniel Kraus won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Angel Down, a World War I story told in a single sentence.
- Bess Wohl won the drama prize for Liberation, a play about second-wave feminist groups in the 1970s.
- Jill Lepore’s We the People won for history, focusing on the US Constitution.
- Amanda Vaill won biography for Pride and Pleasure, about the Schuyler Sisters during the American Revolution.
- Yiyun Li’s memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow received the memoir-autobiography prize and deals with the suicides of her two sons.
- Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us won for general nonfiction, about working and homelessness in America.
- Juliana Spahr won the poetry prize for Ars Poeticas.
- Gabriela Lena Frank won the music award for Picaflor: A Future Myth, inspired by Andean legends and California wildfires.
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