Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama:
- The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein (Fireside Theatre)
- History:
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press)
- History:
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry:
- New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
- General Non-fiction:
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House)
- Music:
- Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds (C. F. Peters)
premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
- Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds (C. F. Peters)
Read more about this topic: 1989 Pulitzer Prize
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“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence.”
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