Winners

Letters, Drama, and Music

Novel

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

Drama

The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan

History

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years 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)

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

Waterbury (CT) Republican & American

For its campaign exposing municipal graft.

Reporting

S. Burton Heath of 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.

Editorial Writing

Bart Howard of St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Editorial Cartooning

Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun

For "The Outstretched Hand."