Well-deserved recognition to...

Reporters from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, just down I-95, who just won a Pulitzer for their incisive story on genetic sequencing and a young boy fighting for his life.

More than 2,400 entries are submitted each year in all categories in the Pulitzer competition... and only 21 awards are normally made. This, then, the culmination of a year-long process beginning w/the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories.

In the major literary and book Pulitzer awards (a few a bit surprising)...

FICTION - "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)

DRAMA - "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris

HISTORY - "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)

BIOGRAPHY - "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)

POETRY - "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems" by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)

GENERAL NONFICTION - "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner).