Bob Dylan wins a Pulitzer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tracy Letts has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his brutal yet darkly comic play, "August: Osage County" and Bob Dylan has been awarded a special music citation.
Junot Diaz won the prize for fiction Monday for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."
Daniel Walker Howe won for history for "What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848."
John Matteson won for biography for "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father."
Saul Friedlander won the general nonfiction award for "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945."
Two prizes were awarded for poetry: Robert Hass for "Time and Materials" and Philip Schultz for "Failure."
Dylan's citation noted his "profound impact on popular music and American culture."