Lin-Manuel Miranda wins Pulitzer for 'Hamilton,' surprising no one

It'll be months before Hamilton sweeps the Tony Awards, but the 10-dollar founding father just secured another accolade: the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 

Hamilton is the ninth musical in history to win the Pulitzer for Drama, a title more frequently awarded to plays. Miranda's hit now joins the ranks of Next to Normal and Rent. 

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The other winners for Letters and Drama were as follows:

Fiction: Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Sympathizer (Finalists: Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link, Maud's Line by Margaret Verble)

Drama: Lin-Manuel Miranda for Hamilton (Finalists: Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, The Humans by Stephen Karam)

History: T.J. Stiles for Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (Finalists: Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War by Brian Matthew Jordan, Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen)

Biography or Autobiography: William Finnegan for Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Finalists: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles, The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander)

Poetry: Peter Balakian for Ozone Journal (Finalists: Alive: New and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Willis, Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss)

General Non-Fiction: Joby Warrick for Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (Finalists: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power)

Music: Henry Threadgill for In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Finalists: The Blind Banister by Timo Andres, The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor by Carter Pann)

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