Pulitzer Winner Harding to Publish With Random House

Paul Harding, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel TINKERS, is under contract with Random House for his next two books. Random House Editor in Chief Susan Kamil, who is also the Editorial Director of The Dial Press, acquired U.S. rights at auction from Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group and will edit the novels.
The first novel in the contract will be titled ENON, and will be set in the same fictional town as TINKERS.
“We are thrilled that Paul Harding has been the recipient of this honor,” said Kamil. “He is a writer of astonishing talent and we are looking forward to being the publisher of his future work.”

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

Pulitzer Announces '09 Prize Winners

NEW YORK, NY (Authorlink News, April 20, 2009)--The Pulitzer Prize Board today announced its 2009 winners in Letters at Columbia University. Authors from Random House, Inc. won three of the five Pulitzer categories:

Fiction: OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)

Biography: AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)

General Nonfiction: SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)

Other winners in the Letters category were:

Drama - Ruined by Lynn Nottage

History - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)

Poetry - The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)

In the eleven years since Random House, Inc. came together as a merged company eighteen of our books have won Pulitzers--a feat unmatched by another trade-book publishing company.