A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998:
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)
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.
