Donna Tartt wins fiction Pulitzer for 'Goldfinch'

1.    Donna Tartt wins fiction Pulitzer for 'Goldfinch'

i. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, already among the most popular and celebrated novels of the past year, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

ii. One of the country’s top colonial historians, Alan Taylor, has won his second Pulitzer, forThe Internal Enemy — Slavery and War In Virginia.

iii. The Washington Post and the Guardian have won Pulitzer Prizes in public service for revealing the massive U.S. government surveillance effort.

iv. The newspapers’ disclosures about the National Security Agency's spy programs show the U.S. government has collected information about millions of Americans' phone calls and emails based on its classified interpretations of laws passed after the Sept. 11 attacks.

v. The stories are based on thousands of documents handed over by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.