Pulitzer surprise

A tiny press, an unknown author,  a compelling story carried to publication by word of mouth, and without a Facebook page! That’s how Paul Harding’s novel “Tinkers” won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction this week. A fascinating, heartening account of this season’s Cinderella by Geoff Edgers in the Boston Globe. (We’ve ordered “Tinkers” for the Library!)

Other literary Pulitzers for 2010 were:

History – Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

Biography – The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

Poetry – Versed by Rae Armantrout 

General Nonfiction – The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman 

Drama: Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey