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Guests | April 18, 2013

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    The Stud Book

    Monica Drake 9780307955524

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Pulitzer Prize

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The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University each spring since 1917. The awards are chosen by a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. The awards for Letters include Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, History, and Fiction.

  1. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire... New Hardcover $40.00

Pulitzer Prize for History

Publisher Comments: The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world’s powers and saw two of them — first France, then the United States &mdash... (read more)


  1. The Orphan Master's Son
    New Trade Paper $15.00

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Publisher Comments: An epic novel that elevates its acclaimed author to a whole new level, The Orphan Master’s Son is a stunning work of fiction that follows a young man’s undercover journey in the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun... (read more)


  1. Stag's Leap
    New Mass Market $15.50

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Publisher Comments: Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling — which carries us through the seasons when her... (read more)


Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Publisher Comments: By the author of the internationally bestselling biography The Orientalist, The Black Count brings to life one of history’s great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar.  His... (read more)


  1. Devil in the Grove (P.S.) New Trade Paper $15.99

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

Publisher Comments: Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change... (read more)

Awards for 2013

  1. Pulitzer Prize for History

    1. $40.00 New Hardcover add to wish list
    Publisher Comments: The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world’s powers and saw two of them — first France, then the United States &mdash... (read more)
  2. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

    1. $15.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list

      The Orphan Master's Son

      Adam Johnson 9780812982626
    Publisher Comments: An epic novel that elevates its acclaimed author to a whole new level, The Orphan Master’s Son is a stunning work of fiction that follows a young man’s undercover journey in the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun... (read more)
  3. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

    Publisher Comments: Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling — which carries us through the seasons when her... (read more)
  4. Pulitzer Prize for Biography

    1. $27.00 New Hardcover add to wish list
    Publisher Comments: By the author of the internationally bestselling biography The Orientalist, The Black Count brings to life one of history’s great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar.  His... (read more)
  5. Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

    1. $15.99 New Trade Paper add to wish list

      Devil in the Grove (P.S.)

      Gilbert King 9780061792267
    Publisher Comments: Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change... (read more)

Past Winners

  1. Biography 2012

    George F. Kennan: An American Life
    Sale Hardcover $14.98
  2. History 2012

    Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
    Used Trade Paper $10.00
  3. Nonfiction 2012

    The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
    Used Hardcover $17.50
  4. Poetry 2012

    Life on Mars Used Trade Paper $8.00
  5. Biography 2011

    Washington: A Life
    Used Hardcover $19.95
  6. Fiction 2011

    A Visit from the Goon Squad
    Used Trade Paper $8.00
  7. History 2011

  8. Nonfiction 2011

    The Emperor of All Maladies: A...
    New Hardcover $30.00
  9. Poetry 2011

    The Best of It: New and Selected Poems Sale Trade Paper $7.98
  10. Biography 2010

    The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of... New Hardcover $45.00
  11. Fiction 2010

    Tinkers
    Used Trade Paper $7.95
  12. History 2010

    Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who...
    Used Trade Paper $10.00
  13. Nonfiction 2010

    The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of...
    Used Hardcover $12.95
  14. Poetry 2010

    Versed Used Hardcover $15.95
  15. Biography 2009

    American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the...
    Used Trade Paper $5.95
  16. Fiction 2009

    Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
    Used Hardcover $10.50
  17. History 2009

    The Hemingses of Monticello: An... Used Trade Paper $9.95
  18. Nonfiction 2009

    Slavery by Another Name: The... Used Trade Paper $9.00
  19. Poetry 2009

    The Shadow of Sirius
    Used Trade Paper $10.95
  20. Biography 2008

    Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa... Used Trade Paper $10.00

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