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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Pulitzer to Foner

Posted by Mary L. Dudziak
Eric Foner has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

Other winners:   Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow, for Biography, and The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, for General Nonfiction. The full list is here.
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