For distinguished criticism, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Awarded to Tim Page of The Washington Post for his lucid and illuminating music criticism.

Columbia University President, George Rupp (left), presents Tim Page with the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Herbert Muschamp of The New York Times for his criticism of architecture in America, written with devotion to the art, penetrating analysis and literate style, and Leslie Savan of The Village Voice, New York City, for her analytical columns about the forces at work behind advertising and consumerism, particularly on television.