grand winners of grand prize- pulitzer prize 2011

Writers Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Eagan, Eric Foner, Ron Chernow, and  are among the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners.

 Siddharth Mukherjee has won the Pulitzer prize for his book- " The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer". He  is an Indian-born Bengali American doctor and non-fiction writer. The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Listen his interview here.

   Jennifer Egan, an American novelist and short story writer has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her       unusual   novel about the passage of time, "A Visit from the Goon Squad" which portrays the demise of the music industry in the digital age. The book also earned the National Book Critics Circle prize earlier this year. Interview of Egan can be listened at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/jun/10/goon-squad/

 Eric Foner won the Pulitzer Prize for history for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. For Interview of Eric Foner click http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/oct/19/fiery-trial/  

Ron Chernow won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for Washington: A Life. Ronald Chernow is an American biographer.Chernow's 904-page Washington: A Life was released on October 5, 2010 It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2011) and the American History Book Prize. Listen to his interviews here.

A complete list of Pulitzer winners can be found at http://www.pulitzer.org/