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).
Charles W. Eliot, by Henry James (Houghton)
The Jury
The Jury
Royal Cortissoz(Chair)
Richard Burton
George McL. Harper
Winners in Biography
1931 Prize Winners
H. R. Knickerbocker of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New York Evening Post
For a series of articles on the practical operation of the Five Year Plan in Russia.
Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun
For "An Old Struggle Still Going On."
Charles S. Ryckman of the Fremont (Neb.) Tribune
For the editorial entitled "The Gentleman from Nebraska."