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1940 Pulitzer Prize

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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1940.

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Journalism awards

  • Public Service:
  • Waterbury Republican-American for its campaign exposing municipal graft.
  • Reporting:
  • S. Burton Heath of the New York World-Telegram for his expose of the frauds perpetrated by Federal judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned and was tried and imprisoned.
  • Correspondence:
  • Otto D. Tolischus of The New York Times for his dispatches from Berlin.
  • Editorial Writing:
  • Bart Howard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
  • Editorial Cartooning:
  • Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun for The Outstretched Hand.

    • Letters and Novel Awards

  • Novel:
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking).
  • Drama:
  • The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan (Harcourt).
  • History:
  • Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt).
  • Biography or Autobiography:
  • Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday).
  • Poetry:
  • Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren (Holt).

    • References

    1940 Pulitzer Prize Wikipedia
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