Educators Among Pulitzer Winners
The Pulitzers were announced Monday, as you may have heard. Congrats Washington Post (the paper dominated the journalism categories, with six awards) and music legend Bob Dylan (he scored the Special Citation), the first rocker to take that prize.
Several educators were also honored, with five professors -- three from California -- also earning Pulitzers. Here's the rundown:
*From our backyard (almost), UCLA professor emeritus of history (who holds the same position at the University of Oxford) Daniel Walker Howe won the history prize for his book "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848."
*Also from UCLA, history professor Saul Friedlander took the cake in the general nonfiction category for "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945."
*Cal Berkeley English professor Robert Haas won the poetry prize for "Time and Materials."
From outside the Golden State, MIT associate professor of writing and humanistic studies Junot Diaz won the fiction prize for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and John Matteson, an English professor at City University of New York's John Jay College, took biography honors for "Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father."