Winners

Letters, Drama, and Music

Fiction

The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)

Drama

South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan

History

Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart)

Biography or Autobiography

John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf)

Poetry

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper)

Music

Music in The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti

Produced at the Barrymore Theater, New York.

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

Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.

Local Reporting

Meyer Berger of The New York Times

For his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, N.J.

National Reporting

Edwin O. Guthman of The Seattle Times

For his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.

International Reporting

Edmund Stevens of The Christian Science Monitor

For his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored."

Editorial Writing

Carl M. Saunders of Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot

For distinguished editorial writing during the year.

Editorial Cartooning

James T. Berryman of The Evening Star, Washington, DC

For "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington."

Photography

Bill Crouch of Oakland (CA) Tribune

For his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show."