Pulitzers announced this afternoon


FICTION: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

DRAMA: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

HISTORY: What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

BIOGRAPHY: Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

POETRY: Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)

POETRY: Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

GENERAL NONFICTION: The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

Two winners for poetry, none for editorial writing, and Bob Dylan got a Special Citation, too.

Go here for the full list.

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