Winners

Letters, Drama, and Music

Novel

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

Drama

You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

History

The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (Dutton)

Biography or Autobiography

Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins (Dodd)

Poetry

A Further Range by Robert Frost (Holt)

Special Citations

There are no special citations for this time period.

Pulitzer Prize Board

Members

The board overseeing the prizes

Press Releases

No press releases are currently recorded for this year.

Journalism

Public Service

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For its exposure of wholesale fraudulent registration in St. Louis. By a coordinated news, editorial and cartoon campaign this newspaper succeeded in invalidating upwards of 40,000 fraudulent ballots in November and brought about the appointment of a new election board.

Reporting

John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz of New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times, AP, Universal Service and Scripps-Howard (respectively)

For their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University.

Correspondence

Anne O'Hare McCormick of New York Times

For her dispatches and feature articles from Europe in 1936.

Editorial Writing

John W. Owens of The Baltimore Sun

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Editorial Cartooning

C.D. Batchelor of New York Daily News

For "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy."