Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- No award given.
- Drama:
- The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick (Putnam).
- History:
- A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (Doubleday).
- Biography or Autobiography:
- The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh (Scribner).
- Poetry:
- The Waking by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday).
- Music:
- Concerto For Two Pianos and Orchestra by Quincy Porter (American Composers Alliance). First performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, March 17, 1954. This was one of the works commissioned under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation for new American compositions for orchestra, or soloists and orchestra.
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