2001 Pulitzer Prize

The 2001 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 16, 2001.

Letters awards

 * Fiction:
 * The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
 * History:
 * Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt and Company)
 * Poetry:
 * Different Hours by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company)
 * General Non-Fiction
 * Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (HarperCollins)

Arts awards

 * Drama:
 * Proof by David Auburn (Faber and Faber)
 * Music:
 * Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra by John Corigliano (G. Schirmer)- Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 30, 2000, at Symphony Hall, Boston