2010 Pulitzer Prize

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2010. Paul Harding won the Fiction prize for Tinkers, a debut novel from a small independent press about a dying clock repairer, and Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey won Drama for the rock musical Next to Normal. Liaquat Ahamed took History for Lords of Finance, an account of the central bankers of the interwar years, and T. J. Stiles won Biography for The First Tycoon, his life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Rae Armantrout won Poetry for Versed, and David E. Hoffman received the General Nonfiction prize for The Dead Hand. Thirteen finalists were named across the six categories, with three in Drama.