2003 Pulitzer Prize Winners Include Two Book Sense 76 Picks

The winners of the 87th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 7, and two of the winners in the Letters category were previous Book Sense 76 picks. Fiction winner Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a September/October 2002 Book Sense 76 pick, and the History winner, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt), is a January/February 2003 Book Sense 76 pick and is also on the Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Top Ten History Picks.

Other winners in the Letters category are Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro (Knopf) for Biography or Autobiography; Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) for Poetry; and A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Basic Books) in the General Nonfiction category.

This is the second Pulitzer for Caro, who won the Biography/Autobiography prize in 1975 for The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Knopf).

Each winner is awarded a prize of $7,500.

The complete list of 2003 Pulitzer Prize winners is online at http://www.pulitzer.org/2003/2003.html.