1968 Pulitzer Prize - Letters, Drama and Music Awards

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

• Fiction:
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random).
• Drama:
  • No award given.
• History:
  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Harvard Univ. Press).
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Memoirs by George F. Kennan (Little).
• Poetry:
  • The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum).
• General Non-Fiction:
  • Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will Durant and Ariel Durant (Simon & Schuster).
• Music:
  • Echoes of Time and the River by George Crumb (Belwin-Mills).
    An orchestral suite first performed on May 26, 1967 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Mandel Hall, University of Chicago, having been commissioned by the University in connection with the celebration of its 75th anniversary.