  The Known World wins the Pulitzer I've blogged before about this awesome novel by Edward P. Jones. I just discovered he won the urlLink Pulitzer Prize for fiction . If you haven't read it already, I hope this encourages you to check it out.
It is well worth your time. sidenote - I just finished American Woman by Susan Choi last week, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer. It is about a fascinating topic, but I had to skim. There were parts of it I really enjoyed, and parts I obviously didn't. I don't know if I'd recommend it. 
