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1990 Pulitzer Prize

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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1990.

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Two awards for Public Service were given in 1990. 1990 was also the last year that awards were given for General News Reporting and Specialized Reporting - these categories were changed to Spot News Reporting and Beat Reporting the following year.

Letters awards

  • Fiction:
  • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)
  • History:
  • In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow (Random House)
  • Biography or Autobiography:
  • Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia (Princeton University Press)
  • Poetry:
  • The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
  • General Non-Fiction:
  • And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (Pantheon)

    • Arts awards

  • Drama:
  • The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (Plume)
  • Music:
  • Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra by Mel Powell (G. Schirmer)

    • Premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on January 26, 1990.

    References

    1990 Pulitzer Prize Wikipedia
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