NEW YORK— A Salina South High School graduate has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
Anne Boyer's "elegant and unforgettable narrative about the brutality of illness and the capitalism of cancer care in America,"The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care," won the award for General Nonfiction.
A widely-published poet and essayist, Boyer has been teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute since 2007.
Boyer earned an M.F.A. with distinction in creative writing in 1997 from Wichita State University and a B.A. degree in English literature in 1996 from Kansas State University, according to the KCAI website. She is a graduate of Salina South High School.
The award comes with a cash prize of fifteen thousand dollars.
Winners in fifteen journalism and seven book, drama and music categories were announced on Monday afternoon by the Pulitzer committee. It's the organization's 104th year honoring excellence in journalism and the arts.