A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1997: Journalism awards 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 References External links Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prizes by year