Anthony Doerr wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr on Monday was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for All the Light We Cannot See, a historical novel set in occupied France. Other winners included Elizabeth Kolbert for The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History in the category of general non-fiction.

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Ryu Spaeth

Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.