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.
- RiverRun Symphony by Stephen Albert (G. Schirmer)
Read more about this topic: 1985 Pulitzer Prize
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