Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)
- Drama:
- A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller (Hill and Wang)
- History:
- Mary Chestnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (Yale U. Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Grant: A Biography by William McFeely (Norton)
- Poetry:
- The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)
- General Non-Fiction:
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic-Little )
- Music:
- Concerto for Orchestra, by Roger Sessions (E. B. Marks Music)
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