The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes for Literature

The official finalists are listed underneath the winners.

Fiction
Tinkers, by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)
Love in Infant Monkeys, by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull Press)
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin (W.W. Norton & Company)

History
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press)
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood (Oxford University Press)

Biography
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (Alfred A. Knopf)
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, by John Milton Cooper Jr. (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry
Versed, by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press)
Tryst, by Angie Estes (Oberlin College Press)
Inseminating the Elephant, by Lucia Perillo (Copper Canyon Press)

General Nonfiction
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday)
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, by John Cassidy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright (Little, Brown and Company)

Among previous honors, Harding's TINKERS was an Indie Next January 2009 pick (and finalist for the Indie Next Adult Debut award), a finalist for the Center for Fiction's first novel prize, and one of Granta editor John Freeman's top five debut selections for 2009 for NPR.