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1939 Pulitzer Prize

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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1939

Contents

Journalism awards

  • Public Service:
  • Miami Daily News for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission.
  • Reporting:
  • Thomas Lunsford Stokes of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance for his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in The New York World-Telegram.
  • Correspondence:
  • Louis P. Lochner of Associated Press for his dispatches from Berlin
  • Editorial Writing:
  • Ronald G. Callvert of The Oregonian, Portland for his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled My Country 'Tis of Thee.
  • Editorial Cartooning:
  • Charles G. Werner of Daily Oklahoman for Nomination for 1938.

    • Letters and Drama Awards

  • Novel:
  • The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner).
  • Drama:
  • Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood (Scribner).
  • History:
  • A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (Harvard Univ. Press).
  • Biography or Autobiography:
  • Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (Viking).
  • Poetry:
  • Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher (Farrar).

    • References

    1939 Pulitzer Prize Wikipedia
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