12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday,
April 17, 2007 Dallas Morning
News
From Staff and Wire
Reports
NEW
YORK – Lawrence Wright and
Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prizes for general
nonfiction and fiction Monday, while Fort Worth-born jazz master Ornette Coleman won for music.
Mr.
Wright, of Austin, won for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to
9/11, a penetrating analysis of how Islamic fundamentalism has reshaped
the modern world.
"To
be singled out at any time for such an honor is humbling, of course, but
especially after such an extraordinary year for important, nonfiction books,"
he said by e-mail. "So many journalists have risked – or lost – their lives in
the course of their attempts to enlighten the American public about the
critical historical moment we find ourselves in, and
I'd like to take this opportunity to salute my colleagues and thank them for
their efforts."
Mr.
McCarthy, formerly of El Paso and now of
Santa Fe, N.M., won for his sparse, apocalyptic novel
The Road. He is widely praised as an heir to William Faulkner for such
novels as All the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian.
Both writers and their works were honored by the TIL at the
annual banquet held in Dallas, April 14th. Wright won the Carr P. Collins
Award for Best Work of Nonfiction, and McCarthy was awarded the Jesse H. Jones
Award for Best Novel.