1998 Pulitzer Prize

A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998:

Letters
Premiered on January 19, 1990, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
 * 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 No. 2 (musica instrumentalis) by Aaron Jay Kernis (Associated Music Publishers)

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.