American Decades
Awards
PULITZER PRIZES
1960
Fiction: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
Drama: Fiorellol, by George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, Sheldon Harnick, and Jerry Bock
Poetry: Heart's Needle, by W. D. Snodgrass
Music: Second String Quarter by Elliott Carter
1961
Fiction: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Drama: All the Way Home, by Tad Mosel
Poetry: Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades, by Phyllis McGinley
Music: Symphony No. 7, by Walter Piston
1962
Fiction: The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor
Drama: How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
Poetry: Poems, by Alan Dugan
Music: The Crucible, by Robert Ward
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1960's The Arts
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Art and Humanities Funding
- Art Everywhere: An Explosion of Art Movements
- The Art of Less: Minimalism
- Folk Music
- From Rock 'n' Roll to Rock and Pop
- Hippies and their Music: Woodstock
- Motown
- Movies
- On the Stage
- Poetry and Politics: The Blackm Arts Movement and the Black Aesthetic
- Reasons not to Kill Yourself Even Though Life is Meaningless: The Rise of Black Humor
- Self-Reflexive Reflections: Metafiction
- Slouching Toward Popularity: Faction and the New Journalism
- To Bedlam and Back: The New American Poetry
- What's Everyone Reading? Popular Fiction and Nonfiction
- Young Adult and Children's Literature
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Headline Makers
- Albee, Edward 1928-
- Brubeck, Dave 1920-
- Cash, Johnny 1932-
- Coltrane, John 1926-1967
- Dylan, Bob 1941-
- Hendrix, Jimi 1942-1970
- Joplin, Janis 1943-1970
- Kesey, Ken 1935-
- Kubrick, Stanley 1928-
- Poitier, Sidney 1927-
- Pynchon, Thomas 1937-
- Rauschenberg, Robert 1925-
- Streisand, Barbra 1942-
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 1922-2007
- Warhol, Andy 1930-1987
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in the Arts, 1960–1969
