Book-related winners of the Pulitzer Prizes, announced yesterday, are:
- Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
- Drama: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Theatre Communications Group)
- History: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
- Biography: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (Norton)
- Poetry: Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco) and Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
- General Nonfiction: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)
In addition, Steve Fainaru of the Washington Post, who won the international reporting category for his "heavily reported series on private security contractors in Iraq that operate outside most of the laws governing American forces," has written a book called Big Boy Rules: In the Company of America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq that will be published by Da Capo Press in November.
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