Winners

Letters, Drama, and Music

Fiction

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)

Drama

A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee

History

Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf)

Biography or Autobiography

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster)

Poetry

Live or Die by Anne Sexton (Houghton)

General Nonfiction

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (Cornell Univ. Press)

Music

Quartet No. 3 by Leon Kirchner

First performed by the Beaux Arts Quartet in Town Hall, January 27, 1967.

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

Milwaukee Journal

For its successful campaign to stiffen the law against water pollution in Wisconsin, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.

Louisville Courier-Journal

For its successful campaign to control the Kentucky strip mining industry, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.

Local General or Spot News Reporting

Robert V. Cox of Chambersburg (Pennsylvania) Public Opinion

For his vivid deadline reporting of a mountain manhunt that ended with the killing of a deranged sniper who had terrorized the community.

Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

Gene Miller of Miami Herald

Whose initiative and investigative reporting helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder.

National Reporting

Stanley Penn and Monroe Karmin of The Wall Street Journal

For their investigative reporting of the connection between American crime and gambling in the Bahamas.

International Reporting

R. John Hughes of The Christian Science Monitor

For his thorough reporting of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66.

Editorial Writing

Eugene Patterson of The Atlanta Constitution

For his editorials during the year.

Editorial Cartooning

Patrick B. Oliphant of The Denver Post

For "They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table...Will They?" Published February 1, 1966.

Photography

Jack R. Thornell of Associated Press, New Orleans bureau

For his picture of the shooting of James Meredith in Mississippi by a roadside rifleman.