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2013 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: J. Diaz, T. Friedman, G. Moore, S. Gissler, D. Allen, J. Dehli; back row, left to right: L. Bollinger, A. Marques, S. Coll, R. Blau, P. Tash, K. Willey, R. Beck, P. Gigot, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, S. Hahn (absent: N. Lemann, Q. Hudes)

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Thomas L. Friedman and Gregory Moore, co-chairs; Sig Gissler, administrator

John Fabian Witt

Publication
Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
Citation
A striking work examining how orders issued by President Lincoln to govern conduct on battlefields and in prisons during the Civil War have shaped modern laws of armed conflict.
Publisher
Free Press
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Categories: History

Bernard Bailyn

Publication
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Citation
A luminous account of how the British colonies took root amid raw brutality, often with terrible consequences for the settlers as well as the native population.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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Categories: History

Wadada Leo Smith

Publication
Ten Freedom Summers
Citation
An expansive jazz work that memorializes 10 key moments in the history of civil rights in America, fusing composed and improvised passages into powerful, eloquent music.
Publisher
Cuneiform Records
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Categories: Music

Aaron Jay Kernis

Publication
Pieces of Winter Sky
Citation
A luminous work that takes listeners into a mystical realm marked by taut expressive control and extraordinarily subtle changes of tone, texture and nuance.
Publisher
Associated Music Publishers, Inc.
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Categories: Music

Bruce Weigl

Publication
The Abundance of Nothing
Citation
A powerful collection of poems that explore the trauma of the Vietnam War and the feelings that have never left many of those who fought in the conflict.
Publisher
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern
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Categories: Poetry

the late Jack Gilbert

Publication
Collected Poems
Citation
A half century of poems reflecting a creative author's commitment to living fully and honestly and to producing straightforward work that illuminates everyday experience with startling clarity.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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Categories: Poetry

Amy Herzog

Publication
4000 Miles
Citation
A drama that shows acute understanding of human idiosyncrasy as a spiky 91-year-old locks horns with her rudderless 21-year-old grandson who shows up at her Greenwich Village apartment after a disastrous cross-country bike trip.
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Categories: Drama

Gina Gionfriddo

Publication
Rapture, Blister, Burn
Citation
A searing comedy that examines the psyches of two women in midlife as they ruefully question the differing choices they have made.
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Categories: Drama

Eowyn Ivey

Publication
The Snow Child
Citation
An enchanting novel about an older homesteading couple who long for a child amid the hard wilderness of Alaska and a feral girl who emerges from the woods to bring them hope.
Publisher
Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown
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Categories: Fiction

Nathan Englander

Publication
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Citation
A diverse yet consistently masterful collection of stories that explore Jewish identity and questions of modern life in ways that can both delight and unsettle the reader.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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Categories: Fiction
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