Today Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Tinkers, a major award for an indie press operated out of the Bellevue Hospital Center.
The other finalists were Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull Press) and In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (W.W. Norton & Company). Here are the rest of the Letters, Drama and Music winners:
History–Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press)
Biography–The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
Poetry–Versed by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press)
General Nonfiction–The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday)
Drama–Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Music–Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon (Lawdon Press)