Short Story Collection Wins Pulitzer

Elizabeth Strout has won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection of 13 interlinked stories, Olive Kitteridge. Set in small-town Crosby, Maine, the committee commented that the book "packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating." It's the first time a story collection has won the prize since Jhumpa Lahiri won for Interpreter of Maladies in 2000. Strout beat out The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich and All Souls by Christine Schutt.