On April 18th, the winners of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize were announced at Columbia University in New York. From more than 2,500 entries, 21 recipients were selected by 102 distinguished jurors. These winners will be honored at a luncheon to be held in May at Columbia's Low Library.

The full list of the award winners and nominees, including those for journalism and music, can be found on The Pulitzer Prize website: http://www.pulitzer.org

The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners in the categories of Letters and Drama are:

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)