Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Biography or Autobiography:
- God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Fiction:
- Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
- General Non-Fiction:
- The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (Random House)
- History:
- Willam Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry:
- The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press)
- Drama:
- Rent by Jonathan Larson (Rob Weisbach Books/William Morrow)
- Music:
- Lilacs by George Walker (MMB Music)
Read more about this topic: 1996 Pulitzer Prize
Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or music:
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)