1957 Pulitzer Prize
The 1957 Pulitzer Prize was the 41st award of the most important US literary prize. Prizes were awarded in 14 categories of journalism, literature, theater and music.
Categories and award winners
category | Category | Award winners |
---|---|---|
journalism | Journalism | |
Public service | Public service | Chicago Daily News |
Local coverage | Local Reporting, Edition Time | Salt Lake Tribune |
Local coverage | Local reporting, no edition time | Wallace Turner and William Lambert of Portland Oregonian |
Domestic reporting | National reporting | James Reston of The New York Times |
Foreign reporting | International reporting | Russell Jones from United Press International |
editorial | Editorial writing | Buford Boone from Tuscaloosa News |
cartoon | Editorial cartooning | Tom Little from Nashville Tennessean |
Photo photography | Photography | Harry A. Trask of Boston Traveler |
Literature, theater and music | Letters, Drama & Music | |
Fiction | Fiction | not forgiven |
theatre | drama | Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill (Yale Univ. Press) |
history | History | Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press) |
Biography or autobiography | Biography or Autobiography | Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (Harper). |
poetry | Poetry | Things of This World by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt). |
music | Music | Meditations on Ecclesiastes by Norman Dello Joio (C. Fischer), first performed at the Juilliard School of Music on April 20, 1956. |
Special mentions | Special Citations | |
Special Price | Special Awards and Citations | not forgiven |
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- 1957 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists , in: pulitzer.org , accessed March 14, 2017.