The 2001 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded at Columbia University in New York April 16. Each winner will receive a medal and a cash prize of $7,500. The winners are:
Fiction:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
History:Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf)
Biography or Autobiography:W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919—1963 by David Levering Lewis (Holt)
Poetry:Different Hours by Stephen Dunn (Norton)
General Nonfiction:Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (HarperCollins)
