1926 Pulitzer Prize
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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1926.
The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism
Journalism awards
- Public Service:
- Columbus Enquirer Sun, for the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching.
- Reporting:
- William Burke Miller of Louisville Courier-Journal, for his work in connection with the story of the trapping in Sand Cave, Kentucky, of Floyd Collins.
- Editorial Writing:
- Edward M. Kingsbury of New York Times, for the editorial entitled "'House of a Hundred Sorrows."
- Editorial Cartooning:
- D. R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today."
Letters and Drama Awards
- Novel:
- Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) (declined)
- Drama:
- History:
- A History of the United States by Edward Channing (Macmillan)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing (Oxford Univ. Press)
- Poetry:
- What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell (Houghton)
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