Letters
- Biography or Autobiography
- Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Fiction
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
- History
- Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward Larson (BasicBooks)
- General Non-Fiction
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
- Poetry
- Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar)
- Drama
- How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel (TCG)
- Music
- String Quartet #2 (musica instrumentalis) by Aaron Jay Kernis (Associated Music Publishers)
Premiered on January 19, 1990, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
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“How dare I read Washington’s campaigns, when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents? Is not that a just objection to much of our reading? It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbours. It is peeping.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In one instance, we understood that a woman was the post- mistress, and they said that she made the best one on the road; but we suspected that the letters must be subjected to a very close scrutiny there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)