The Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been awarded to Daniel Kraus, an author known for fantasy, horror, and young adult novels, for his World War I narrative, Angel Down , notably told in a single, continuous sentence. Bess Wohl’s Liberation , exploring 1970s feminist consciousness-raising groups , secured the drama prize.

Kraus, 50, boasts a diverse career, including collaborations with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro . The Pulitzer committee lauded Angel Down as "a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism, and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence."

From left, "Angel Down" by Daniel Kraus, "Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution" by Amanda Vail," "There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America" by Brian Goldstone, "Things in Nature Merely Grow" by Yiyun Li, and "We the People: A History of the Constitution" by Jill Lepore (Atria/FSG/Crown/FSG/W.W.…