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)
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Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or music:
“I had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many scenes and without an end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“While the music is performed, the cameras linger savagely over the faces of the audience. What a bottomless chasm of vacuity they reveal! Those who flock round the Beatles, who scream themselves into hysteria, whose vacant faces flicker over the TV screen, are the least fortunate of their generation, the dull, the idle, the failures . . .”
—Paul Johnson (b. 1928)