Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
- Drama:
- 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman (Hill and Wang)
- History:
- The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac (U. North Carolina Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Growing Up by Russell Baker (Congdon & Weed)
- Poetry:
- Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin)
- General Non-Fiction:
- Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin)
- Music:
- Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) by Ellen Zwilich (Margun Music)
Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982, in Alice Tully Hall, New York City.
- Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra) by Ellen Zwilich (Margun Music)
Read more about this topic: 1983 Pulitzer Prize
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