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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“Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn’t written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)