Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama:
- The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein (Fireside Theatre)
- History:
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press)
- History:
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry:
- New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
- General Non-fiction:
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House)
- Music:
- Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds (C. F. Peters)
premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
- Whispers Out of Time by Roger Reynolds (C. F. Peters)
Read more about this topic: 1989 Pulitzer Prize
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“Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, griefs, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations—all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
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