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The Pulitzer Prize award winners have been announced for 2010, including those for letters and drama.  The fiction award goes to a first novel published by a small press, telling the story of three generations of a New England family.

The winners are:

Fiction— Tinkers, by Paul Harding

History— Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed

Biography—The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles

Poetry— Versed, by Rae Armantrout

General Nonfiction— The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, by David E. Hoffman

Drama— Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey