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:
“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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