Pulitzer Prize Winning Authors

All Over but the Shoutin' Rick Bragg

ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN' was named Memoir of the Year and was Rick Bragg's first book. It has become the icon story of a dirt poor Southern family and the strong woman who endured to raise her three sons. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for...

Perfume River Robert Olen Butler

PERFUME RIVER examines family ties with flashbacks from the Viet Nam War. The author's experience as an Army intelligence agent during that period gives him a great advantage in creating what many critics say is best novel yet by the Pulitzer Prize winner.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless...

The Empire of Night Robert Olen Butler

THE EMPIRE OF NIGHT is another in the Christopher Marlow Cobb exciting adventures of  a newspaperman turned spy who this time is thrown together with another secret agent - his own mother. Kit Cobb and his mother risk all in Berlin during World War I.

 

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Day Michael Cunningham

DAY is a portrait of compassion, tragedy and tenderness experienced by a family that takes place on April 5,2019 - April 5, 2020, and April 5, 2022, It is a story told masterfully by a master storyteller.

 

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The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird Jack E. Davis

BALD EAGLE: THE IMPROBABLE JOURNEY OF AMERICA'S BIRD is a fascinating double story of the history of an amazing creature along with the animal's relationship with our Founding Fathers and the very beginnings of our country. The brilliant manner in which the tale is told is full of humor and remarkable facts.
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Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech Maureen Dowd

NOTORIOUS is a great escape from the political malaise of the day.This gossipy romp from a legend in American journalism profiles with wit and fun a ton of elite including Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, Mel Brooks and Elon Musk.                      

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Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan

MANHATTAN BEACH was one of the most anticipated books of the season. This dark story is set during World War Two when a woman's life was structured, and the protagonist becomes the only female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. She also has her own ideas about sexual appetites, and becomes involved with a mob boss who...

King: A Life Jonathan Eig

KING: A LIFE is the first full biography to include recently declassified FBI files. This  revelatory new portrait of the man who shook the world views the reasons why he demanded peaceful protests but was never at peace with himself. We have the unique opportunity to follow this brilliant student from the classroom to...

The Mighty Red Louise Erdrich

THE MIGHTY RED from the mighty pen of the winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize is a major literary event. It is about men and women, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful, who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy and carry bitter secrets.

 

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Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich

FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD takes place in a dystopian version of the near future, where the process of evolution has irrevocably begun to work backwards across all species, with piling reports of women giving birth to primitive species of humans. An adopted woman who is four months pregnant seeks out her birth...