Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
- History:
- The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield (Harcourt)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays (Harvard Univ. Press)
- Poetry:
- Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton)
- Drama:
- Picnic by William Inge (Random House)
- Music:
- not awarded
Read more about this topic: 1953 Pulitzer Prize
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