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2009 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row: A. Gyllenhaal, J. Dehli, T. Friedman, R. Oppel, A.M. Lipinski, S. Gissler, K.A. Willey, A. Bennett
back row: K. Carroll, D. Allen, P. Gigot, G. Moore, P. Tash, D. Kennedy, R. Beck, J. Amoss

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Richard Oppel, chair; Sig Gissler, administrator

H.W. Brands

Publication
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Citation
A richly textured and highly readable exploration of the inner Roosevelt, presented with analytical acuity and flashes of originality.
Publisher
Doubleday
Tags: 2009
Categories: Biography

Gina Gionfriddo

Publication
Becky Shaw
Citation
A jarring comedy that examines family and romantic relationships with a lacerating wit while eschewing easy answers and pat resolutions.
Tags: 2009
Categories: Drama

William I. Hitchcock

Publication
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
Citation
A heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar.
Publisher
Free Press
Tags: 2009
Categories: General Nonfiction

Arthur Herman

Publication
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Citation
An authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other.
Publisher
Bantam Books
Tags: 2009
Categories: General Nonfiction

Ruth Stone

Publication
What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems
Citation
A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human.
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Tags: 2009
Categories: Poetry

Frank Bidart

Publication
Watching the Spring Festival
Citation
A book of lyric poems that evinces compassion for the human condition as it explores the constraints that limit the possibility of people changing the course of their lives.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tags: 2009
Categories: Poetry

Staff

Publication
The Washington Post
Citation
For its sensitive and moving examination of how females in the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations.
Tags: 2009

Rukmini Callimachi

Publication
Associated Press
Citation
For her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa who are often traded like animals by adults who prize their labor.
Tags: 2009

G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot

Publication
The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
Citation
An elegantly written account of a brief period in American history that left a profoundly altered national landscape.
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Tags: 2009
Categories: History