Pulitzers Announced, UT Professor Garners History Prize

The 2006 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today, with UT's David M. Oshinsky, George Littlefield Professor of American History, garnering the prestigious History prize for "a distinguished book upon the history of the United States." Said book was Polio: An American Story, what Publishers Weekly hailed as "an edifying description of one of the most significant public health successes" in our country's time. Congrats, Professor!

Other winners included Geraldine Brooks for March (Fiction), the Staff of The Dallas Morning News (Breaking News Photography), and Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith of the Washington Post, for their investigatory journalism into that whole Abramoff scandal.

Also recognized this time around was jazz legend Thelonious Monk, who was given a posthumous "Special Citation" for his "body of distinguished and innovative musical composition."

You can check out the full list of winners here, on a page that looks remarkably like it was made back in 1997.