1920 Pulitzer Prize Explained

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1920.

Journalism awards

• Public Service

• • No award given. Jurors recommended the prize be given to the Minneapolis Daily News for its Americanization campaign, but the Advisory Board declined to make an award.^[1]
• Reporting

• • John J. Leary, Jr. of the New York World, for the series of articles written during the United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919.
• Editorial Writing

• • Harvey E. Newbranch of the Evening World Herald (Omaha) for an editorial entitled "Law and the Jungle", condemning the Omaha race riot of 1919.^[2]

Letters and Drama Awards

• Drama

• • Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill (Boni)
• History

• • The War with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith (Macmillan)
• Biography or Autobiography

• • The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge (Houghton)

External links

• Pulitzer Prizes for 1920

Notes and References

1. Book: Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer. Erika J. Fischer. Walter de Gruyter. 2011. 3110939126. 13-14.
2. An historical analysis of "Law and the Jungle", the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial by Harvey E. Newbranch. Rodney W. Howe. 1994. University of Nebraska–Lincoln. 30575882.