Pulitzer Prize 2011: Who are the winners in the arts?

4. Biography: “Washington: A Life,” by Ron Chernow

Monitor reviewer Erik Spanberg wrote that in "Washington: A Life" acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow managed to transform " the most marbled – or wooden – of presidents into flesh and blood."

Finalists for this year's prize for biography: “The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century,” by Alan Brinkley and “Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon,” by Michael O’Brien.

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