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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