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 American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas, by Charles Edward Russell (Doubleday)
The Jury
The Jury
Winners in Biography
Harvey Cushing
Two volumes.
1928 Prize Winners
Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
For "May His Shadow Never Grow Less."
Grover Cleveland Hall of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.
Vernon Louis Parrington
Volumes One and Two; Volume Three was incomplete at the time of his death and published posthumously by his colleagues in 1930.