Letters, Music and Drama Awards
- Fiction:
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
- Drama:
- All the Way Home by Tad Mosel (Obolensky)
- History:
- Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald (Knopf)
- Poetry:
- Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
- Music:
- Symphony No. 7 by Walter Piston (Associated Music Publishers), first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
Read more about this topic: 1961 Pulitzer Prize
Famous quotes containing the words music and/or drama:
“Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
Yet slower yet, oh faintly gentle springs:
List to the heavy part the music bears,
“Woe weeps out her division when she sings.”
Droop herbs and flowers;
Fall grief in showers;
“Our beauties are not ours”:
Oh, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since nature’s pride is, now, a withered daffodil.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man’s will and his environment: in a word, of problem.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)