Kudos to The Sun's Michael Sragow, who split the top honors for the National Award for Arts Writing with author Brenda Wineapple.

The award, given to the best nonfiction book on the arts each year, may not yet have the same cachet as the Pulitzer Prize. But it's one of the highest monetary awards for a book by a single author; the winner of the arts award gets $15,000, while the winner of each Pulitzer gets a paltry $10,000.  

(Sragow and Wineapple will each come away with $7,500.)

"I was delighted to learn that I was a finalist," Sragow says, "but I didn't really expect to win. There was a slate of very strong contenders."  

Sragow was honored for Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, and Wineapple got the nod for White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Want more details about how Sragow put together his magnum opus? Read them here.