| "This should give me strength to finish up tomorrow Wright had previously won an Obie and other awards for his off-Broadway play "Quills " It was the 53-year-old author's first book since "Lost in the City," his 1993 collection of short stories about life in his native Washington from the 1950s-1970s He currently heads the music department at Adelphi University on Long Island "
The Pulitzer for drama went to Doug Wright for "I Am My Own Wife," the tale of a real-life German transvestite who survived both the Nazis and the Communists "
"I Am My Own Wife" used transcripts from Wright's interviews with the transvestite, Lothar Berfelde " Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board at The Washington Post
The award for general nonfiction went to Anne Applebaum for "Gulag: A History "
The Pulitzer Prize for biography was captured by William Taubman, a professor of political science at Amherst College, for "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
The award for music went to "Tempest Fantasy" by Paul Moravec, who has created more than 80 other compositions , Jones said the Pulitzer was welcome news on an otherwise dreary day org/
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Jones was a proofreader for the trade publication Tax Notes before he launched a writing career
Michael Kuchwara, drama critic for The Associated Press, called it "a vivid portrait of a unique person whose ability to endure has been turned into a highly theatrical journey , was a Pulitzer finalist in 2002 for his collection "The Before Life," and he's captured a host of awards for earlier works
The poetry winner was Vienna-born Franz Wright for "Walking to Martha's Vineyard
In history, the winner was Steven Hahn for "A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration
"I've been feeling sick and I'm in the middle of having to move, because the upstairs neighbors are so noisy," he said
A slow worker who won't write until he has a story constructed in his mind, he takes days off when he's not in the mood to sit at a keyboard " Taubman is an expert on the Khrushchev era, and has written several previous books about the Soviet Union dating back to the Stalin regime Jones for "The Known World," his long-anticipated historical novel about a black slave owner
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Jones, who spent 10 years between books, had previously won the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Known World " Wright, of Waltham, Mass The Washington resident has worked extensively as a foreign correspondent
Reached at his home Monday in Arlington, Va 'The Known World' Wins Fiction Pulitzer
Apr 5, 3:01 PM EST
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to Edward P |