The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1926.
The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- Columbus Enquirer Sun, for the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching.
- Reporting:
- William Burke Miller of Louisville Courier-Journal, for his work in connection with the story of the trapping in Sand Cave, Kentucky, of Floyd Collins.[1]
- Editorial Writing:
"The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today", winner of the prize for Editorial Cartooning
- Editorial Cartooning:
- D. R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today".[2]
Letters and Drama Awards
- Novel:
- Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt (publisher)) (declined)
- Drama:
- Craig's Wife by George Kelly (Little, Brown and Company)
- History:
- A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865) by Edward Channing (Macmillan Publishers)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing (Oxford University Press)
- Poetry:
- What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
References
- ↑ "'Skeets' Miller wins $1,000 Pulitzer Prize for Courier-Journal Collins stories". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. May 4, 1926 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
- ↑ "Pulitzer awards in arts and letters for 1925 announced; work of Post-Dispatch cartoonist declared best of the year". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 4, 1926 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
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