Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
- History:
- American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie (Knopf)
- Poetry:
- The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus)
- General Non-Fiction:
- Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske (Knopf)
- Drama:
- Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley (Viking)
- Music:
- No Award
Read more about this topic: 1981 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)
“As if, as if, as if the disparate halves
Of things were waiting in a betrothal known
To none, awaiting espousal to the sound
Of right joining, a music of ideas, the burning
And breeding and bearing birth of harmony,
The final relation, the marriage of the rest.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)