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

6. General nonfiction: “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee offers a "biography" of cancer, written in a style that has been described as a form of literary thriller with a disease as protagonist.

Finalists for the prize for general nonfiction: “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain,” by Nicholas Carr and “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History,” by S.C. Gwynne.

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