Letters, Drama and Music Awards
| Fiction | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) |
| Drama | August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (TCG) |
| History | What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) |
| Biography | Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton) |
| Poetry | Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) |
| Poetry | Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt) |
| General Nonfiction | The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins) |
| Music | The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang (G. Schirmer) |
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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 (1858–1924)
“Nearly all the bands are mustered out of service; ours therefore is a novelty. We marched a few miles yesterday on a road where troops have not before marched. It was funny to see the children. I saw our boys running after the music in many a group of clean, bright-looking, excited little fellows.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)