1946 Pulitzer Prize

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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1946.

Journalism awards

Public Service:
- Scranton Times for its fifteen-year investigation of judicial practices in the United States District Court for the middle district of Pennsylvania, resulting in removal of the District Judge and indictment of many others.
Reporting:
- William L. Laurence of The New York Times for his eye-witness account of the atom-bombing of Nagasaki and his subsequent ten articles on the development, production, and significance of the atomic bomb.
Correspondence:
- Arnaldo Cortesi of The New York Times for distinguished correspondence during the year 1945, as exemplified by his reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Telegraphic Reporting (National):
- Edward A. Harris of St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his articles on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the nation-wide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy.
Telegraphic Reporting (International):
- Homer Bigart of New York Herald Tribune for his distinguished reporting during the year 1945 from the Pacific war theatre.
Editorial Writing:
- Hodding Carter of Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Mississippi for a group of editorials, including Go for Broke, published during the year 1945 on the subject of racial, religious and economic intolerance.
Editorial Cartooning:
- Bruce Alexander Russell of the Los Angeles Times for Time to Bridge That Gulch.
Photography:
- no award

Novel:
- No award given.
Drama:
- State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay (Random).
History:
- The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Little)
Biography or Autobiography:
- Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Knopf).
Poetry:
- No award given.
Music:
- Canticle of the Sun by Leo Sowerby (H. W. Gray)commissioned by the Alice M Ditson Fund, first performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York, April 1945.

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