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.
Read more about this topic: 1998 Pulitzer Prize
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