A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 1998: Journalism Letters 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. References External links Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prizes by year Pulitzer Prize, 1998