1937 Pulitzer Prize

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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1937.

[edit] Journalism Awards

• Public Service:
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch for its exposure of wholesale fraudulent registration in St. Louis. By a coordinated news, editorial and cartoon campaign this newspaper succeeded in invalidating upwards of 40,000 fraudulent ballots in November and brought about the appointment of a new election board.
• Reporting:
  • John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz of New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times, AP, Universal Service and Scripps-Howard, for their coverage of science at the Tercentenary of Harvard University.
• Correspondence:
  • Anne O'Hare McCormick of New York Times for her dispatches and feature articles from Europe in 1936.
• Editorial Writing:
  • John W. Owens of The Baltimore Sun for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
• Editorial Cartooning:
  • C. D. Batchelor of New York Daily News for Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy.

[edit] Letters and Drama Awards

• Novel:
  • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
• Drama:
  • You Can't Take It with You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.
• History:
  • The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks.
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins.
• Poetry:
  • A Further Range by Robert Frost

[edit] External links

• Pulitzer Prizes for 1937.