2007 Pulitzer Prize

The 2007 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2007. Cormac McCarthy won the Fiction prize for The Road, the story of a father and son crossing a ruined, post-apocalyptic America, and David Lindsay-Abaire won Drama for Rabbit Hole, about a couple grieving the death of their young son. Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff took History for The Race Beat, a study of how the press covered the civil rights movement. Debby Applegate won Biography for The Most Famous Man in America, her life of Henry Ward Beecher, Natasha Trethewey won Poetry for Native Guard, and Lawrence Wright received the General Nonfiction prize for The Looming Tower.