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2016 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row left to right: J. Diaz, R. Blau, K. Willey, P. Gigot, M. Pride, J. Dehli, G. Collins; back row left to right: N. Brown, K. Boo, J. Daniszewski, R. Beck, E. Robinson, S. Engelberg, A. Marqués, T. Shelby, S. Hahn, S. Coll (absent: L. Bollinger)

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Paul Gigot, chair; Mike Pride, administrator

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
Citation
A layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a "man of two minds" -- and two countries, Vietnam and the United States.
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Categories: Fiction
Publisher
Grove Press
Publication
The Sympathizer

Peter Balakian

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Peter Balakian.
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Poems that bear witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.
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Categories: Poetry
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication
Ozone Journal

Elizabeth Alexander

Publication
The Light of the World: A Memoir
Citation
A prose elegy and love story told in a lyrical voice that carries the author and her readers across the difficult terrain from grief to consolation.
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
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Categories: Biography

James M. Scott

Publication
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
Citation
A spellbinding narrative that uses Chinese, Russian and Japanese sources to expand the story of the first American attack on Japan during World War II.
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
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Categories: History

Brian Matthew Jordan

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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Citation
A history exposing mental and physical infirmities that beset Civil War veterans, maladies that echo in the experiences of many veterans today.
Publisher
Liveright/Norton
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Categories: History

Annie Jacobsen

Publication
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Citation
A brilliantly researched account of a small but powerful secret government agency whose military research profoundly affects world affairs.
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
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Categories: History

T.J. Stiles

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T.J. Stiles.
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A rich and surprising new telling of the journey of the iconic American soldier whose death turns out not to have been the main point of his life. (Moved by the Board from the Biography category.)
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Categories: History
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

William Finnegan

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William Finnegan.
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A finely crafted memoir of a youthful obsession that has propelled the author through a distinguished writing career.
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Categories: Biography
Publisher
Penguin Press
Publication
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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