Pulitzer Prize 2016 winners include Hamilton, Barbarian Days

The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners for excellence in literature, journalism, music, and photography - the 100th since September first handed out awards Were in 1917 - Were Announced During Monday on YouTube to livestream session.

Upon winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway hit musical Hamilton Became the first to do so since 2010's Next to Normal. William Finnegan's memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life nabbed the Pulitzer in the Biography or Autobiography category, while The Associated Press won the gold medal for Public Service.

Other publications honored as a whole include The Los Angeles Times (Breaking News Reporting), The New York Times (International Reporting), The Washington Post (National Reporting) and the Tampa Bay Times (Local Reporting). The New Yorker picked up Past ITS first two Pulitzers for Criticism (Emily Nussbaum) and Feature Writing (Kathryn Schulz) following a 2015 decision to expand Certain categories to include magazines.

The presiding board for the 2016 awards includes writers from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg News, and The Wall Street Journal. Twenty winners will receive a cash prize of $ 10,000 for Their work, while the journalism category's Public Service winner (a news organization, not an individually writer) will receive a gold medal.

Last year's roster of winners in the books categories featured the likes of Anthony Doerr's WWII-set novel All The Light We Can not See, Elizabeth Kolbert's nonfiction publication The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and Gregory Pardo's poetry collection, Digest, Among Others.

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