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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