Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- No award given.
- Drama:
- The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer (Drama Book Specialists)
- History:
- The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter, a posthumous publication. Manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Harper)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack (Little)
- Poetry:
- Divine Comedies by James Merrill (Atheneum)
- General Non-Fiction:
- Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (Atlantic-Little Brown)
- Music:
- Visions of Terror and Wonder by Richard Wernick (Theodore Presser Company)
for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, premiered at the Aspen Music Festival, July 19, 1976. It was commissioned by the Festival's Conference on Contemporary Music, with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Visions of Terror and Wonder by Richard Wernick (Theodore Presser Company)
Read more about this topic: 1977 Pulitzer Prize
Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or music:
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1858–1924)
“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)