1955 Pulitzer Prize - Letters, Drama and Music Awards

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

  • Fiction:
    • A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)
  • History:
    • Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan (Rinehart).
  • Biography or Autobiography:
    • The Taft Story by William S. White (Harper).
  • Poetry:
    • Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens (Knopf).
  • Drama:
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
  • Music:
    • The Saint of Bleecker Street by Gian-Carlo Menotti (G. Schirmer); an opera first performed at The Broadway Theatre, New York, December 27, 1954.

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