1985 Pulitzer Prize - Letters, Drama and Music Awards

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

  • Fiction:
    • Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
  • Drama:
    • Sunday in the Park with George Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine (Dodd, Mead)
  • History:
    • Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (Belknap/Harvard)
  • Biography or autobiography:
    • The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman (Harper & Row)
  • Poetry:
    • Yin by Carolyn Kizer (BOA Editions)
  • General non-fiction:
    • The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel (Pantheon)
  • Music:
    • RiverRun Symphony by Stephen Albert (G. Schirmer)
      Premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra on January 17, 1985.

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