2011 Pulitzer Prize

The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2011. Jennifer Egan won the Fiction prize for A Visit from the Goon Squad, a linked novel that follows music-industry characters across decades, and Bruce Norris won Drama for Clybourne Park. Eric Foner took History for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, and Ron Chernow won Biography for Washington: A Life. Kay Ryan won Poetry for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, and Siddhartha Mukherjee received the General Nonfiction prize for The Emperor of All Maladies, his history of cancer. Two finalists were named in each of the six categories.