Eyes on the Prize

By Margaret Hicks in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 18, 2006 1:39PM

This morning, as we lay in our beds, we wondered what it would feel like to know that we had written something amazing, deserving, intellectual and interesting.

Then we thought of our previous posts and knew we were good to go.

No, no, no, we’re kidding, we kid.

But what it must feel like to win a Pulitzer Prize, we can’t imagine. We think we’d go on a literary, party bender for sure, complete with Byron-esque absinthe and all. Alas, we haven’t won one, but don’t count us out too soon, you never know when they might add a blogging section to the prize categories.

Without further ado, let us present to you, the Pulitzer Prize winners in books:

Fiction: “March”, by Geraldine Brooks.

History: “Polio: An American Story”, by David M. Oshinsky.

Biography: “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer”, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Poetry: “Late Wife”, by Claudia Emerson.

General Non-Fiction: “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya”, by Caroline Elkins.

Check out the other prizes awarded in music, drama (or ... not) and reporting here.

And keep checking back, you never know when we might just win something.