For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
Strange Holiness, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Macmillan)
The Jury
The Jury
Wilbur L. Cross(Chair)
Faculty, Columbia Journalism School
Leonard Bacon*
Faculty, Columbia Journalism School
Bliss Perry
Faculty, Columbia Journalism School
Winners in Poetry
1936 Prize Winners
Wilfred C. Barber of the Chicago Tribune
For his reports of the war in Ethiopia. (A posthumous award.)
Felix Morley of The Washington Post and George B. Parker of Scripps-Howard Newspapers
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.