Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation’s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World won the history Pulitzer, TJ Stiles's The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt took the biography award, Rae Armantrout's Versed the poetry Pulitzer and David E Hoffman's The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy the general non-fiction prize.A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.įounder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Lying in his room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse and the clouds and sky plummet down on top of him as he hallucinates, until he is released from the "constraints of time and memory" to rejoin his father, an impoverished pedlar in the backwoods of Maine.
Published thanks to a grant and public funding, Tinkers follows the last days of a man dying from cancer and kidney failure. I can afford to continue doing what I love to do." It is almost 30 years since a small publisher last won the Pulitzer Louisiana State University Press took the prize in 1981 with John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. "It was a little book from a little publisher that was hand-sold from start to finish," he said, adding that the win gave him "a sense of freedom. Harding, a 42-year-old debut novelist, told USA Today he was "stunned" to win.
The novel is published by Bellevue Literary Press, a five-year old publisher affiliated to New York University's school of medicine. The judges' citation called Tinkers "a powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality".
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