'Hamilton' wins Pulitzer for Best Drama

Linda Ge
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The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners To Be Announced Today
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners To Be Announced Today

Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Columbia University-run organization announced Monday.

The prize is awarded "for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life."

There is no separate musical category, and "Hamilton" becomes the first musical play to win the prize since "Next to Normal" in 2010.

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The 2015 prize went to "Between Riverside and Crazy" by Stephen Adly Giurgis, and other notable winners have included "August: Osage County," "Rabbit Hole" and "Driving Miss Daisy."

Miranda already received the MacArthur Genius Grant for his work on "Hamilton."

The hit musical following the life of Alexander Hamilton will open in Los Angeles in the summer of 2017.

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