Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
- Drama:
- 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman (Hill and Wang)
- History:
- The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac (U. North Carolina Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Growing Up by Russell Baker (Congdon & Weed)
- Poetry:
- Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin)
- General Non-Fiction:
- Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin)
- Music:
- Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) by Ellen Zwilich (Margun Music)
Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982, in Alice Tully Hall, New York City.
- Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) by Ellen Zwilich (Margun Music)
Read more about this topic: 1983 Pulitzer Prize
Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or music:
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
Yet slower yet, oh faintly gentle springs:
List to the heavy part the music bears,
“Woe weeps out her division when she sings.”
Droop herbs and flowers;
Fall grief in showers;
“Our beauties are not ours”:
Oh, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since nature’s pride is, now, a withered daffodil.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)