Letters and Drama
| Fiction | Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| Drama | Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry (TCG) |
| History | The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| Biography or autobiography | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald (Little) |
| Poetry | Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| General non-fiction | The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon & Schuster) |
| Music | 12 New Etudes for Piano by William Bolcom (Edward B. Marks) Premiered March 30, 1987 by Marc-Andre Hamelin. |
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