2008 Pulitzer Prize

The 2008 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2008. Junot Díaz won the Fiction prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, about a Dominican-American family haunted by a curse, and Tracy Letts won Drama for August: Osage County. Daniel Walker Howe took History for What Hath God Wrought, a volume of the Oxford History of the United States, and John Matteson won Biography for Eden's Outcasts, about Louisa May Alcott and her father. The Poetry prize was shared by Philip Schultz's Failure and Robert Hass's Time and Materials, and Saul Friedländer received the General Nonfiction prize for The Years of Extermination. Several finalists were also named in each category.