2006 Pulitzer Prize

The 2006 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2006. Geraldine Brooks won the Fiction prize for March, which follows the absent father from Little Women through the Civil War, and the board gave no award in Drama that year. David M. Oshinsky took History for Polio: An American Story, and Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin won Biography for American Prometheus, their life of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Claudia Emerson won Poetry for Late Wife, and Caroline Elkins received the General Nonfiction prize for Imperial Reckoning, an account of British detention camps in colonial Kenya.