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Feminism play Liberation and first world war novel Angel Down among Pulitzer winners

the Guardian·Associated Press and agencies·28 days ago
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Pulitzer prize officials awarded the fiction award to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for Angel Down, a first world war narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. Liberation, Bess Wohl’s look back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s, received the drama prize. Winners announced on Monday included two books rooted in the founding of the US. Jill Lepore’s We the People: A History of the US Constitution won for history, and Amanda Vaill’s Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution was the winner for biography. Yiyun Li’s Things in Nature Merely Grow, her blunt account of the suicides of her two sons, was cited for memoir-autobiography. Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America won for general nonfiction.…

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