This volume contains details about decision-making processesand circumstances under which American dramatists andcomposers earned the coveted Pulitzer Prizes within theTwentieth Century. All winners from 1918 - 2000 arepresented with their biographies together with reprints ofthe original premiere programs of their award-winning works, performed in theatres and concert halls. Among the dramarecipients are the four-times winner Eugene O'Neill, triple-laureate Thornton Wilder and double-receiverTennessee Williams, while the composers are representedmainly by the double-winners Gian- Carlo Menotti, SamuelBarber, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Elliott Carter andRoger Sessions.
Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, isProfessor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.