Feminism play Liberation and first world war novel Angel Down among Pulitzer winners
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This year's winners also include Jill Lepore's book on the constitution and Brian Goldstone's on housing insecurity
Pulitzer prize officials awarded the fiction award to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for Angel Down, a first world war narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. Liberation, Bess Wohl's look back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s, received the drama prize.
Winners announced on Monday included two books rooted in the founding of the US. Jill Lepore's We the People: A History of the US Constitution won for history, and Amanda Vaill's Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution was the winner for biography.
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