1998 Pulitzer Prize

A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998:

Journalism

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 Nonfiction
• 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 No. 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.

Special Awards and Citations

• Special Citation
• George Gershwin - Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.

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