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:
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—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
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