Among the academics winning Pulitzer Prizes last week were Jorie Graham of the University of Iowa, whose The Dream of the Unified Field: New and Selected Poems (Ecco Press) won the poetry prize, and Jack Miles, director of the Humanities Center at the Claremont Graduate School, who won the prize for biography with God: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf). A retired Rutgers University professor, George Walker, won in the music category for “Lilacs.”
Alan Taylor, a historian at the University of California at Davis, won the history prize for William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Knopf). It is the second honor this month for Mr. Taylor, whose book also won a Bancroft Prize in American History.
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