Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)
- Drama:
- A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller (Hill and Wang)
- History:
- Mary Chestnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (Yale U. Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Grant: A Biography by William McFeely (Norton)
- Poetry:
- The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)
- General Non-Fiction:
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic-Little )
- Music:
- Concerto for Orchestra, by Roger Sessions (E. B. Marks Music)
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Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or music:
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)
“Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
And by that music let us all embrace,
For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
A second time do such a courtesy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)