Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little)
- Drama:
- Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson (Hill & Wang)
- History:
- Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack (Knopf)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Coward)
- Poetry:
- Selected Poems by Donald Justice (Atheneum)
- General Non-fiction:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (Basic Books)
- Music:
- In Memory of a Summer Day by David Del Tredici (Boosey & Hawkes)
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“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity to history, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Thy remembrance, and repentance, and deep musings are not free
From the music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile.”
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