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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Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or music:
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.”
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