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
Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or music:
“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)