Congratulations to Pulitzer Prize winner (biography or autobiography) Megan Marshall, author of “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), “a richly researched book that tells the remarkable story of a 19th century author, journalist, critic and pioneering advocate of women’s rights who died in a shipwreck.”
And congrats to the other finalists in this category: “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World,” by Leo Damrosch (Yale University Press), “a seminal work that illuminates the famous yet enigmatic satirist who was also a crucial figure in 18th century Anglo-Irish politics”; and “Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life,” by Jonathan Sperber (Liveright), “an impressively researched work that provides a fresh perspective on Marx and his ideas by placing him in the social and intellectual swirl of the 1800s.”
I knew the nomination of “Dare I Call It Murder?” would be a long-shot, so I’m happy to have been given consideration.
More on the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners at: http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biography-or-Autobiography
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