Jayne Anne Phillips' novel 'Night Watch,' Eboni Booth’s drama 'Primary Trust' among Pulitzer winners

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Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum after the Civil War, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

This combination of cover images shows"No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era" by Jacqueline Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history, left,"A Day in the Life of Abed Salama" Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy" by Nathan Thrall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, center, and"Night Watch" by Jayne Anne Phillips, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Nathan Thrall's “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” won for general nonfiction, and Jacqueline Jones received the history prize for “No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era.”Two winners were announced Monday in the biography category: Jonathan Eig for his Martin Luther King biography “King” and Ilyon Woo's “Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom.

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