Post-Civil War Saga Wins Pulitzer for Fiction

Jayne Anne Phillips' Night Watch, a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum after the Civil War, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The drama prize was awarded to Eboni Booth's Primary Trust, about a bookstore worker's unexpected journey after he loses his job. Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy won for general nonfiction, and Jacqueline Jones received the history prize for No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era, the AP reports.

Two winners were announced Monday in the biography category: Jonathan Eig for his Martin Luther King biography King: A Life and Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom. Cristina Rivera Garza's investigation into the murder of her sister, Liliana's Invincible Summer, won for memoir-autobiography, while Brandon Som's Tripas received the poetry prize. Tyshawn Sorey's saxophone concerto "Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)" was the winner for music. Click for the journalism winners.