No Prize for Fiction was awarded! That was the big surprise of the 2012 Pulitzers. There are 21 Pulitzer categories–7 of them for Letters, Drama, and Music, one Special Award and the rest for Journalism. For the first time since 1977, no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded. The winners in the Letters and Drama categories were:
- History: Manning Marable: Malcolm X: A Life in Reinvention
- Biography: John Lewis Gaddis: George F. Kennan: An American Life
- Poetry: Tracy K. Smith: Life on Mars
- General Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- Drama: Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes: “Water by the Spoonful.”
The fiction titles nominated for the prize were:
- Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson
- Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, and
- The Pale King, by the late David Foster Wallace
For further information on the 2012 winners and on the Pulitzer Prizes, see
http://www.pulitzer.org/.
