The Nineties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Literature: Major Literary Awards

Nobel Prizes in Literature
1990: Octavio Paz, Mexico
1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
1992: Derek Walcott, Saint Lucia
1993: Toni Morrison, United States
1994: Kenzaburfbe, Japan
1995: Seamus Heaney, Ireland
1996: Wisuawa Szymborska, Poland
1997: Dario Fo, Italy
1998: José Saramago, Portugal
1999: Günter Grass, West Germany

Pulitzer Prizes

1990
Fiction:The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Loveby
Oscar Hijuelos
Drama:The Piano Lessonby August Wilson
History:In Our Image: America’s Empire in the
Philippinesby Stanley Karnow
Biography or Autobiography:Machiavelli in Hell
by Sebastian de Grazia
Poetry:The World Doesn’t Endby Charles Simic

1991
Fiction:Rabbit at Restby John Updike
Drama:Lost in Yonkersby Neil Simon
History:A Midwife’s Taleby Laurel Thatcher
Ulrich
Biography or Autobiography:Jackson Pollockby
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Poetry:Near Changesby Mona Van Duyn

1992
Fiction:A Thousand Acresby Jane Smiley
Drama:The Kentucky Cycleby Robert Schenkkan
History:The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and
Civil Libertiesby Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Biography or Autobiography:Fortunate Son: The
Healing of a Vietnam Vetby Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
Poetry:Selected Poemsby James Tate

1993
Fiction:A Good Scent from a Strange Mountainby
Robert Olen Butler
Drama:Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner

History:The Radicalism of the American Revolutionby

Gordon S. Wood

Biography or Autobiography:Trumanby David

McCullough

Poetry:The Wild Irisby Louise Glück

1994

Fiction:The Shipping Newsby E. Annie Proulx

Drama:Three Tall Womenby Edward Albee

History: No award

Biography or Autobiography:W. E. B. Du Bois:

Biography of a Race, 1868-1919by David Levering

Lewis

Poetry:Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poemsby

Yusef Komunyakaa

1995

Fiction:The Stone Diariesby Carol Shields

Drama:The Young Man from Atlantaby Horton

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History:No Ordinar y Time: Franklin and Eleanor

Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War IIby Doris

Kearns Goodwin

Biography or Autobiography:Harriet Beecher Stowe:

A Lifeby Joan D. Hedrick

Poetry:The Simple Truthby Philip Levine

1996

Fiction:Independence Dayby Richard Ford

Drama:Rentby Jonathan Larson

History:William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion

on the Frontier of the Early American Republicby

Alan Taylor

Biography or Autobiography:God: A Biographyby

Jack Miles

Poetry:The Dream of the Unified Fieldby Jorie Graham

1997

Fiction:Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American

Dreamerby Steven Millhauser

Drama: No award

History:Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the

Making of the Constitutionby Jack N. Rakove

Biography or Autobiography:Angela’s Ashes: A

Memoirby Frank McCourt

Poetry:Alive Together: New and Selected Poemsby

Lisel Mueller