1926 Pulitzer Prize Explained

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1926.

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

• • Edward M. Kingsbury of The New York Times, for "The House of a Hundred Sorrows".

• 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)

External links

• Pulitzer Prizes for 1926

Notes and References

1. News: 'Skeets' Miller wins $1,000 Pulitzer Prize for Courier-Journal Collins stories. The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. May 4, 1926. Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
2. News: 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. Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)