1950 Pulitzer Prize

1950 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1950.

Journalism Awards

*Public Service:
** "The Chicago Daily News" and the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", for the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll.
*Local Reporting:
** Meyer Berger of "The New York Times", for his 4,000 word story on the mass killings by Howard Unruh in Camden, New Jersey.
*National Reporting:
** Edwin O. Guthman of "The Seattle Times", for his series on the clearing of Communist charges of Professor Melvin Rader, who had been accused of attending a secret Communist school.
*International Reporting:
** Edmund Stevens of the "Christian Science Monitor", for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in Moscow entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".
*Editorial Writing:
** Carl M. Saunders of the "Jackson Citizen Patriot", for distinguished editorial writing during the year.
*Editorial Cartooning:
** James T. Berryman of the "Evening Star, Washington D.C. for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington".
*Photography:
** Bill Crouch of "The Oakland Tribune", for his picture, "Near Collision at Air Show".

Letters, Drama and Music Awards


*Fiction:
** "The Way West" by A. B. Guthrie, Jr..
*Drama:
**"South Pacific" by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan.
*History:
** "Art and Life in America" by Oliver Waterman Larkin.
*Biography or Autobiography:
** "John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy" by Samuel Flagg Bemis.
*Poetry:
** "Annie Allen" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
*Music;
** Music in "The Consul" by Gian-Carlo Menotti, produced at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York.

External links

* [http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?year=1950&FormsButton1=Show+Winners Pulitzer Prizes for 1950] .


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