Alan Taylor Wins Another Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced.  Alan Taylor of the University of Virginia has won the Pulitzer in History for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.   This is Taylor’s second Pulitzer.  He won in 1996 for William Cooper’s Town.

Finalists were Jacqueline Jones and Eric Schlosser.

See all the 2014 winners here.

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