•Jennifer Egan’s inventive novel about the passage of time, “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, honored for its “big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.” The book is set in the digital upending of the music industry.
•The play “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris, which examines race relations and the effects of modern gentrification, won the drama prize.
•The Pulitzer for history was awarded to “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner, a Columbia University professor who has won multiple honors for a career focused on the Lincoln era and Reconstruction.
•Ron Chernow, a New York- based historian, won the Pulitzer for biography for “Washington: A Life,” about the nation’s first president.
•Kay Ryan’s “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems” won the poetry prize. Ryan was U.S. poet laureate in 2008-2010.
•The general nonfiction prize was given to “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at Columbia.
•The music prize went to Zhou Long for “Madame White Snake,” which was hailed as “a deeply expressive opera that draws on a Chinese folk tale to blend the musical traditions of the East and the West.”
The Associated Press
