Winners

Letters, Drama, and Music

Fiction

(No Award)

Drama

(No Award)

History

The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random)

Biography or Autobiography

O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer (Little)

Poetry

The Dolphin by Robert Lowell (Farrar)

General Nonfiction

The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker (Free Press/Macmillan)

Music

Notturno by Donald Martino

A chamber music piece commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and first performed May 15, 1973 a Alice Tully Hall, New York City, by Speculum Musicae.

Special Citations

Special Awards and Citations - Music

Roger Sessions

For his life's work as a distinguished American composer.

Pulitzer Prize Board

Members

The board overseeing the prizes

Press Releases

No press releases are currently recorded for this year.

Journalism

Public Service

Newsday, Garden City, NY

For its definitive report on the illicit narcotic traffic in the United States and abroad, entitled, "The Heroin Trail."

Local General or Spot News Reporting

Arthur M. Petacque and Hugh F. Hough of Chicago Sun-Times

For uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder of Valerie Percy.

Local Investigative Specialized Reporting

William Sherman of New York Daily News

For his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program.

National Reporting

Jack White of Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin

For his initiative in exclusively disclosing President Nixon's Federal income tax payments in 1970 and 1971.

James R. Polk of Washington Star-News

For his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972.

International Reporting

Hedrick Smith of The New York Times

For his coverage of the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe in 1973.

Commentary

Edwin A. Roberts Jr. of National Observer

For his commentary on public affairs during 1973.

Criticism

Emily Genauer of Newsday Syndicate

For her critical writing about art and artists.

Editorial Writing

F. Gilman Spencer of The Trentonian, Trenton, NJ, editor

For his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government.

Editorial Cartooning

Paul Szep of The Boston Globe

For his editorial cartooning during 1973.

Spot News Photography

Anthony K. Roberts, a free-lance photographer of Beverly Hills, CA

For his picture series, "Fatal Hollywood Drama," in which an alleged kidnapper was killed.

Feature Photography

Slava Veder of Associated Press

For his picture of the return of an American prisoner of war from captivity in North Vietnam.