Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction today for her much-lauded novel, "A Visit from the Goon Squad." Her book had previously won the National Book Critics Circle Award. You can read the Star Tribune review here.

Ron Chernow won in the biography category for his "Washington: A Life"; you can read our review here.

And Kay Ryan won for poetry. Siddhartha Mukherjee won in general nonfiction for "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer."

Read a list of all winners, and finalists, here.