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NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2013 Pulitzer Prize<\/a> officials awarded the fiction prize to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for \u201cAngel Down,\u201d a World War I narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. \u201cLiberation,\u201d<\/a> Bess Wohl’s look back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s received the drama prize.<\/p>\n

Winners announced Monday included two books rooted in the country’s founding. Jill Lepore’s \u201cWe the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution\u201d won for history, and Amanda Vaill’s \u201cPride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution\u201d was the winner for biography. Yiyun Li\u2019s<\/a> \u201cThings in Nature Merely Grow,\u201d her blunt account of the suicides of her two sons, was cited for memoir-autobiography. Brian Goldstone’s \u201cThere is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America\u201d won for general nonfiction.<\/p>\n

The poetry prize went to Juliana Spahr’s \u201cArs Poeticas,\u201d and the music award was given to Gabriela Lena Frank for \u201cPicaflor: A Future Myth,\u201d a symphonic work inspired by Andean legend and California wildfires.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old Kraus has had a diverse and prolific career that includes collaborations with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro. Pulitzer officials praised \u201cAngel Down\u201d as \u201ca stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism, and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.\u201d <\/p>\n

Wohl\u2019s memory play collects second-wave feminists from all walks of life as they tackle misogyny, internalized homophobia, domestic abuse and gender roles. The play navigates between past and present, and six of the actors disrobe for the Act 2 opening scene. The win comes a day before the Tony Award nominations, when \u201cLiberation\u201d is expected to be named in the best new play category.<\/p>\n

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Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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