The 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at Columbia University's Pulitzer Hall at 3 p.m. today.
The Pulitzer Prize is in its 99th year, and awards are given annually for exemplary work in journalism, letters, drama, and music.
Within the category of letters, awards are given for fiction, poetry, general nonfiction, biography or autobiography, and history.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is Digest by Gregory Pardlo.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography is The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History is Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
