For the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people, illustrated by an eminent example, excluding, as too obvious, the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick (Houghton)
The Jury
The Jury
Winners in Biography
Harvey Cushing
Two volumes.
1929 Prize Winners
Paul Scott Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News
For his coverage of international affairs including the Franco-British Naval Pact and Germany's campaign for revision of the Dawes Plan.
Rollin Kirby of the New York World
For "Tammany."
Louis Isaac Jaffe of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
For his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.