US writer Cormac McCarthy has won this year’s Pulitzer prize for fiction with his bleak vision of a post-apocalyptic America, The Road. McCarthy explores the survival journey of a father and son in a brutal wasteland. The Pulitzer for non-fiction went to American journalist Lawrence Wright with his book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, an investigation about the rise of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization. The Pulitzer board has also awarded 14 journalism prizes. 21ST

　　The 2007 Pulitzer Prizes Winners

　　Letters, Drama and Music

　　FICTION:

　　The Road by Cormac McCarthy

　　DRAMA:

　　Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay

　　GENERAL NONFICTION:

　　The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

　　POETRY:

　　Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

　　Journalism

　　PUBLIC SERVICE:

　　The Wall Street Journal

　　BREAKING NEWS REPORTING:

　　The Staff of The Oregonian, Portland

　　FEATURE WRITING:

　　Andrea Elliott of The New York Times

　　COMMENTARY:

　　Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution