Robert Oppenheimer." The prize for poetry went to Claudia Emerson for "Late Wife." Yehudi Wyner took the music prize for "Piano Concerto: 'Chiavi in Mano.'" Sherwin took the prize for biography for "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J.
Oshinsky was awarded the history prize for "Polio: An American Story." The prize for general nonfiction went to Caroline Elkins for "Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya."
William Tecumseh Sherman's brutal conquest of the South during the Civil War, had won the National Book Critics Circle Prize.ĭavid M. Doctorow, whose "The March," the fictionalized account of Gen. NEW YORK - "March," Geraldine Brooks' novel that imagines the life of the fictional father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday.įor the first time since 1997, the Pulitzer board declined to award a prize for drama.īrooks depicted the life of John March, the father absent for most of Alcott's famed novel of four sisters growing up in Massachusetts during the Civil War.
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