Three academics won Pulitzer Prizes in the arts on Monday. In fiction, the winner was Elizabeth Strout, [1] who is on the M.F.A. faculty at Queens University in North Carolina. She won for Olive Kitteridge (Random House), a collection of short stories. In drama, the winner was Lynn Nottage, [2] a visiting lecturer at the Yale School of Drama who was honored for the play Ruined. And in history, the winner was Annette Gordon-Reed, [3] a professor of law at New York Law School, who won for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton).