The 2001 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 16, 2001. Journalism awards Letters awards Fiction: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) History: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) Biography or Autobiography: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt and Company) Poetry: Different Hours by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company) General Non-Fiction Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (HarperCollins) Arts awards Drama: Proof by David Auburn (Faber and Faber) Music: Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra by John Corigliano (G. Schirmer)- Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 30, 2000, at Symphony Hall, Boston References External links Pulitzer Prizes by year Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize