1997 Pulitzer Prize

A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1997:

Letters, Drama and Music Awards

 * Biography or Autobiography:
 * Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
 * Fiction:
 * Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
 * History:
 * Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf)
 * General Non-Fiction:
 * Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)
 * Poetry:
 * Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
 * Drama:
 * No award given.
 * Music;
 * Blood on the Fields by Wynton Marsalis (Boosey & Hawkes), premiered on January 28, 1997, at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut