Reader's Place: May 26, 2020
2020 PUTLIZER PRIZE WINNERS
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners are available in e-format for the following titles:
BIOGRAPHY
Sontag: Her Life and Work, by Benjamin Moser
Moser interviewed nearly 600 friends, enemies, relatives, editors, lovers and others to capture an intellectual who shaped our thinking about everything from art to war to disease.
HISTORY
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel
Henrietta Wood was born into slavery, legally freed in 1848, then abducted and sold back into bondage in 1858. She later sued her kidnapper and was awarded $2,500 — the most ever awarded by an American court as restitution for slavery.
POETRY
The Tradition , by Jericho Brown
The book covers subjects from the Trojan War to James Baldwin to, perhaps most centrally, the often unpunished violence that police commit against African-Americans.
GENERAL NONFICTION
The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care, by Anne Boyer
At the time of her diagnosis with an aggressive form of breast cancer, the poet Anne Boyer was 41 and a single parent. In her genre-defying memoir, Ms. Boyer, now 46, chronicles her struggle to survive not just the disease, but a brutal chemotherapy regime.
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin
Grandin traces the country’s fervent belief in endless outward expansion and how it gave way to nationalism, racism and partisan polarization, epitomized by the current political battle over immigration and the border wall.
FICTION
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
“The Nickel Boys” reimagines the real-life horrors at a reform school in 1960s Florida.
Compiled by Ina Rimpau