Beverly Gage, a professor of history and American studies, received the Pulitzer Prize for her revelatory biography of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists. Among the history finalists: a study of how the Anishinaabeg people resisted the taking of their land and protected their people, a book edited by Williamsburg's Omohundro Institute.
<p>Jing Tsu's book examines the ways that the Chinese written language has survived waves of iconoclasm and shifts in the politics of cultural authority. </p>