2010 Pulitzer Prizes announced

April 12, 2010 12:31 PM PT

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The winners for the Pulitzer Prizes and all finalists have been announced. There were prizes awarded in all five book categories.

Biography winner: ‘The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt’ by T.J Stiles. Finalists: ‘Cheever: A Life’ by Blake Bailey and ‘Woodrow Wilson: A Biography’ by John Milton Cooper Jr.

Fiction winner: ‘Tinkers’ by Paul Harding. Finalists: ‘Love in Infant Monkeys’ by Lydia Millet and ‘In Other Rooms, Other Wonders’ by Daniyal Mueenuddin.

Nonfiction winner: “The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy” by David E. Hoffman. Finalists: ‘How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities” by John Cassidy and ‘The Evolution of God’ by Robert Wright.

Poetry winner: “Versed” by Rae Armantrout. Finalists: ‘Tryst’ by Angie Estes and “Inseminating the Elephant” by Lucia Perillo.

History winner: ‘Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World’ by Liaquat Ahamed. Finalists: “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City” by Greg Grandin and ‘Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815’ by Gordon S. Wood.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.