I was waiting for a flight in San Francisco, California and I knew that I was also going to be in the air for at least four hours; so I thought I would find something at the bookstore and read it. I walked past many books but was captured by the title of McCarthy’s book The Road.

The Pulitzer prize winners 2009 are finally revealed and include for the Arts... Fiction: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) - Drama: "Ruined" by Lynn Nottage - History: "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Co.) - Biography: "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by Jon Meacham (Random House) - Poetry: "The Shadow of Sirius" by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) - General Nonfiction: "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" by Douglas A.