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 or Autobiography
Washington : A Life by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)
Poetry
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan (Grove/Atlantic)
General Nonfiction
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
Music
Madame White Snake by Zhou Long (Oxford University Press)
Samantha Henig has a brief rundown of the journalism awards and some links at the News Desk : The New Yorker
Jill Lepore reviewed Ron Chernow’s “Washington: A Life” and Hendrik Hertzberg gave it a rave: George Washington, Ron Chernow, and ‘Small Government’ .