1997 Pulitzer Prize

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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

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1997 Pulitzer Prize Wikipedia

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