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:
“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“And in the next instant, immediately behind them, Victor saw his former wife.
At once he lowered his gaze, automatically tapping his cigarette to dislodge the ash that had not yet had time to form. From somewhere low down his heart rose like a fist to deliver an uppercut, drew back, struck again, then went into a fast disorderly throb, contradicting the music and drowning it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)