FICTION:

“The Orphan Master’s Son,” by Adam Johnson (Random House)

Finalists:

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” by Nathan Englander (Alfred A. Knopf); “The Snow Child,” by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown).

DRAMA:

“Disgraced,” by Ayad Akhtar

Finalists:

“Rapture, Blister, Burn,” by Gina Gionfriddo; “4000 Miles,” by Amy Herzog.

HISTORY:

“Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam,” by Fredrik Logevall (Random House)

Finalists:

“The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675,” by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred A. Knopf); and “Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History,” by John Fabian Witt (Free Press).

BIOGRAPHY:

“The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo” by Tom Reiss (Crown)

Finalists:

“Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece,” by Michael Gorra (Liveright); “The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy,” by David Nasaw (Penguin).

POETRY:

“Stag’s Leap,” by Sharon Olds (Alfred A. Knopf)

Finalists:

“Collected Poems,” by the late Jack Gilbert (Alfred A. Knopf); “The Abundance of Nothing,” by Bruce Weigl (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern).

GENERAL NONFICTION:

“Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys” by Gilbert King (Harper)

Finalists:

“Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” by Katherine Boo (Random House); “The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature,” by David George Haskell (Viking).

MUSIC:

“Partita for 8 Voices” by Caroline Shaw (New Amsterdam Records)

Finalists:

Aaron Jay Kernis for “Pieces of Winter Sky,” premiered on November 15, 2012 at Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford, Conn.; Wadada Leo Smith for “Ten Freedom Summers,” recording released May 22, 2012, (Cuneiform Records).

Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/business/media/2013-pulitzer-prizes-for-letters-drama-and-music.html?partner=rss&emc=rss