PUBLIC SERVICE Miami Daily News For its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission. REPORTING Thomas Lunsford Stokes of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance For his series of articles on alleged intimidation of workers for the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and Kentucky during an election. The articles were published in The New York World-Telegram. CORRESPONDENCE Louis P. Lochner of Associated Press For his dispatches from Berlin EDITORIAL WRITING Ronald G. Callvert of Oregonian, Portland, Ore. For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee." EDITORIAL CARTOONING Charles G. Werner of Daily Oklahoman "Nomination for 1938."
NOVEL The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) DRAMA Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood HISTORY A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (Harvard Univ. Press) BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (Viking) POETRY Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher (Farrar)
The PulitzerPrizes in Letters and Journalism for 1938 were awarded May 1, 1939.
The prizes, established in 1915 by the will of the late Joseph Pulitzer, are presented annually by the trustees of Columbia University acting upon recommendations by the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Journalism.
In Literature, the Pulitzerprize of $1,000 for 'a distinguished novel published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life,' was awarded to 'The Yearling,' by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of the PulitzerPrize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university.
The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. They have been awarded each May since 1917 on the recommendation of an advisory board comprising journalists, the president of the university, with the dean of the graduate school of journalism as secretary.
PulitzerPrize for Photography, was divided in 1968 into PulitzerPrize for Feature Photography and a spot news category, which became the PulitzerPrize for Breaking News Photography.
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