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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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
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