The 2006 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished FICTION by an American author is awarded to:

Winner:

• March by Geraldine Brooks

Also nominated as finalists for this category:

• The March by E. L. Doctorow
• The Bright Forever by Lee Martin

2006 GENERAL NONFICTION winner:

• Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins

Also nominated as finalists for this category:

• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer

2006 BIOGRAPHY winner:

• American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Rober Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Also nominated as finalist for this category:

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall

2006 HISTORY winner:

• Polio: An American Story by David M Oshinsky

Also nominated as finalist for this category:

• New York Burning by Jill Lepore
• The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz

 

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