1940 Pulitzer Prize

In 1940 the 24th Pulitzer Prize ceremony took place.

Award winners

journalism

• Public service :
  • Waterbury Republican-American for the campaign to expose local bribery .
• Reporting :
  • S. Burton Heath of New York World-Telegram for exposing the scams of Federal Judge Martin T. Manton .
• Correspondence :
  • Otto D. Tolischus of The New York Times for his reports from Berlin .
• Editorial :
  • Bart Howard of St. Louis Post-Dispatch for excellent year -round editorials.
• Caricature :
  • Edmund Duffy of The Baltimore Sun for The Outstretched Hand .

Literature and theater

• Novel :
  • Fruits of Wrath by John Steinbeck ( Viking ).
• Theater :
  • The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan ( Harcourt ).
• History :
  • Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg ( Harcourt ).
• Biography or Autobiography :
  • Woodrow Wilson , Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker ( Doubleday ).
• Seal :
  • Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren ( Holt ).

Web links

• Pulitzer Awards for 1940