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
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