Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced for 2010

Pulitzer Prize winners for 2010 Letters, Ddrama and Music were announced today April 12, 2010)

Paul Harding won the fiction prize for his novel “Tinkers,” while the drama award went to the musical “Next to Normal,” with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Liaquat Ahamed won the history award for “Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World,” the biography prize went to T. J. Stiles for “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt” and the general nonfiction prize went to David E. Hoffman for “The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy.”

Jennifer Higdon won the music prize for her Violin Concerto while the poetry award went to Rae Armantrout for “Versed.”

For the complete list of winners in Letters, Drama and Music go to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/business/media/2010-Arts-Pulitzers.html