1940 Pulitzer Prize Explained

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1940.

Journalism awards

• Public Service

• • Waterbury Republican-American for its campaign exposing municipal graft.
  • Honorable mention to the San Francisco Chronicle for "its part in settling the water front and warehouse strike in San Francisco, June 22 to Dec. 1, 1939".^[1]
• 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.
  • Honorable mention to Lloyd Lehrbas of the Associated Press for his dispatches from Warsaw, Bucharest, and Ankara.
• Editorial Writing

• • Bart Howard of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his distinguished editorial writing during the year.^[2]

• 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

• • 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).

External links

• Pulitzer Prizes for 1940

Notes and References

1. News: Pulitzer Prize winners for 1939 revealed. The Capital Times. Madison, Wisconsin. May 7, 1940. AP. Newspapers.com.
2. News: Bart Howard's long career devoted to keen and brilliant comment on men and events. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 7, 1940. Ernest Kirschten. Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)