Letters, Music and Drama Awards
- Fiction:
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
- Drama:
- All the Way Home by Tad Mosel (Obolensky)
- History:
- Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald (Knopf)
- Poetry:
- Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
- Music:
- Symphony No. 7 by Walter Piston (Associated Music Publishers), first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
Read more about this topic: 1961 Pulitzer Prize
Famous quotes containing the words music and/or drama:
“What is our life? a play of passion;
Our mirth the music of division;
Our mothers’ wombs the tiring-houses be
Where we are dressed for this short comedy.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)
“We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)