Among the winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes:
Fiction: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
Poetry: 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin (Bantam Books)
History: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor (Norton)
Biography or Autobiography: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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Finalists for the £5,000 (US$8,364) Thwaites Wainwright Prize, which "seeks to reward the best U.K. nature and travel writing." The winner will be named May 8 in London. The shortlisted titles are:
Badgerlands by Patrick Barkham
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
Walking Home by Simon Armitage
Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson
Under Another Sky by Charlotte Higgins
The Green Road into the Trees: A Walk Through England by Hugh Thomson