Junot Díaz’s work, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was chosen for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It took him eleven years to complete his novel about a young, obese Dominican immigrant and his tragicomic quest for love. John Matteson’s Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father was chosen for the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Two poets shared the Pulizer Prize for Poetry: Robert Haas for Time and Materials and Philip Schultz for Failure. Saul Friedlander won in general nonfiction for The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. Playwright Tracy Letts won the drama Pulitzer for August: Osage County. The Pulitzer Board also gave a special citation to Bob Dylan, the first rock musician to be so honored.