2014 Pulitzer Prize

The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters and Drama were announced at Columbia University in April 2014. Donna Tartt won the Fiction prize for The Goldfinch, the story of a boy who keeps a small Dutch painting after a museum bombing, and Annie Baker won Drama for The Flick, set among the employees of a small movie theater. Alan Taylor received the History prize for The Internal Enemy, a study of slavery and war in Virginia, and Megan Marshall won Biography for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. Vijay Seshadri won Poetry for 3 Sections, and Dan Fagin took General Nonfiction for Toms River. Two finalists were named in each of the six categories.