The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. The complete list of winners in Letters, Drama and Music is below.


Finalists: “Other Desert Cities,” by Jon Robin Baitz, and “Sons of the Prophet,” by Stephen Karam.


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HISTORY: “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” by Manning Marable (Viking)


Finalists: “Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860,” by Anne F. Hyde (University of Nebraska Press); “The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden,” by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Ballantine Books); “Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America,” by Richard White (W.W. Norton & Company).


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BIOGRAPHY: “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)


Finalists: “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution,” by Mary Gabriel (Little, Brown and Company); “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” by Manning Marable (Viking).


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POETRY: “Life on Mars,” by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)


Finalists: “Core Samples from the World,” by Forrest Gander (New Directions); “How Long,” by Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press).


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GENERAL NONFICTION: “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Company)


Finalists: “One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing,” by Diane Ackerman (W.W. Norton and Company); “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men,” by Mara Hvistendahl (Public Affairs).


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MUSIC: Kevin Puts for “Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts,” commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Opera in Minneapolis on November 12, 2011.


Finalists: Tod Machover for “Death and the Powers,” premiered by the Boston Modern Opera Project in Massachusetts on March 18, 2011; Andrew Norman for “The Companion Guide to Rome,” premiered on November 13, 2011, in Salt Lake City.