Pulitzer Prize Winners: 2008.
FEATURE.
First published April 8, 2008 (Booklist Online).
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Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. By Junot Diaz. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-59448-958-0).
History
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. By Daniel Walker Howe. Oxford Univ., $35 (9780195078947).
Biography
Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. By John Matteson. Norton, $29.95 (9780393059649).
Poetry
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005. By Robert Hass. Ecco, $22.95 (9780061349607).
Poetry
Failure. By Philip Schultz. Harcourt, $23 (9780151015269).
General Nonfiction
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933–1945. By Saul Friedlander. HarperCollins, $39.95 (9780060190439).