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2014 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: J. Diaz, E. Robinson, P. Tash, S. Gissler, D. Allen, G. Collins. R. Beck; back row, left to right: J. Daniszewski, K. Boo, S. Engelberg, J. Dehli, K. Willey, S. Coll, A. Marques, B. Blau, S. Hahn, Q. Hudes and P. Gigot (absent from photo: L. Bollinger)

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Paul C. Tash, chair; Sig Gissler, administrator

John Adams

Publication
The Gospel According to the Other Mary
Citation
A monumental oratorio about the final period of Christ's life that is marked by impassioned music – sometimes forceful, sometimes lyrical – and an ingenious variety of evocative sounds.
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
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Categories: Music

Fred Kaplan

Publication
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Citation
An engrossing look at how a tenacious general became the ringleader of efforts to reshape America's military strategy in the post-Cold War age.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
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Categories: General Nonfiction

Gary J. Bass

Publication
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide
Citation
A disquieting exploration of the role played by the American president and his national security advisor in the 1971 Pakistani civil war, a bloodbath that killed hundreds of thousands and created millions of refugees.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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Categories: General Nonfiction

Adrian Matejka

Publication
The Big Smoke
Citation
An imaginative work by a commanding poet who engages the history and mythology of larger-than-life boxer Jack Johnson.
Publisher
Penguin
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Categories: Poetry

Morri Creech

Publication
The Sleep of Reason
Citation
A book of masterly poems that capture the inner experience of a man in mid-life who is troubled by mortality and the passage of time, traditional themes that are made to feel new.
Publisher
The Waywiser Press
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Categories: Poetry

Jonathan Sperber

Publication
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Citation
An impressively researched work that provides a fresh perspective on Marx and his ideas by placing him in the social and intellectual swirl of the 1800s.
Publisher
Liveright
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Categories: Biography

Leo Damrosch

Publication
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Citation
A seminal work that illuminates the famous yet enigmatic satirist who was also a crucial figure in 18th century Anglo-Irish politics.
Publisher
Yale University Press
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Categories: Biography

Eric Schlosser

Publication
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety
Citation
A chilling history of the management of America's nuclear arsenal, exploring the fateful challenges and chronicling the "near misses" that could have triggered a cataclysm.
Publisher
The Penguin Press
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Categories: History

Jacqueline Jones

Publication
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Citation
A deeply researched examination of how race as a social invention has retained its power to organize, mark and harm the lives of Americans.
Publisher
Basic Books
Tags: 2014
Categories: History

Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori

Publication
Fun Home
Citation
A poignant musical adaptation of a graphic memoir by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, exploring sexual identity amid complicated family constraints and relationships.
Tags: 2014
Categories: Drama
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