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1961 Pulitzer Prize

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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1961.

Contents

Journalism awards

  • Public Service:
  • The Amarillo Globe-Times
  • Local Reporting, Edition Time:
  • Sanche de Gramont of the New York Herald Tribune
  • Local Reporting, No Edition time:
  • Edgar May of The Buffalo Evening News
  • National Reporting:
  • Edward R. Cony of The Wall Street Journal
  • International Reporting:
  • Lynn Heinzerling of the Associated Press
  • Editorial Writing:
  • William J. Dorvillier of The San Juan Star
  • Editorial Cartooning:
  • Carey Orr of the Chicago Tribune
  • Photography:
  • Yasushi Nagao of Mainichi, Tokyo

    • Letters, Music and Drama Awards

  • Fiction:
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
  • Drama:
  • All the Way Home by Tad Mosel (Obolensky)
  • History:
  • Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)
  • Biography or Autobiography:
  • Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald (Knopf)
  • Poetry:
  • Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
  • Music:
  • Symphony No. 7 by Walter Piston (Associated Music Publishers), first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.

    • Special Citations and Awards

  • Letters:
  • American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. A special citation is given to The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War as a distinguished example of American book publishing.

    • References

    1961 Pulitzer Prize Wikipedia
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