This index lists public-domain texts that have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize. "The Pulitzer Prize (pronounced /ˈpʊlɨtsər/) is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City."
Journalism categories edit
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service edit
- 1917 - No award
- 1918 - The New York Times, for its public service in publishing official reports, documents and speeches by European statesmen relating to the progress and conduct of the war.
- 1919 - Milwaukee Journal, for its strong and courageous campaign for Americanism in a constituency where foreign elements made such a policy hazardous from a business point of view.
- 1920 - No award
- 1921 - Boston Post, for its exposure of the operations of Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his arrest.
- 1922 - New York World, for articles exposing the operations of the Ku Klux Klan, published during September and October, 1921.
- 1923 - Memphis Commercial Appeal, for its courageous attitude in the publication of cartoons and the handling of news in reference to the operations of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1924 - New York World, for its work exposing the killing of Martin Tabert, which helped bring the convict leasing system in Florida to an end.
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting edit
- 1921 - Interview of Woodrow Wilson by Louis Seibold of the New York World
- 1924 - "Rehearsal for blackout" by Magner White of the San Diego Sun
- 1932 - "Million watch Legion veterans march for hours" by W. C. Richards, D. D. Martin, J. S. Pooler, F. D. Webb, and J. N. W. Sloan of the Detroit Free Press
- 1934 - "Kidnapers Lynched!" by Royce Brier of the San Francisco Chronicle
- 1943 - "Doc" Lipes Commandeers a Submarine Officers' Wardroom" by George Weller of the Chicago Daily News
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting edit
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting edit
- 1953 - "The Great Deception" by Don Whitehead of the Associated Press
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting edit
- 1961 - "Leonard Warren Dies at the Met" by Sanche de Gramont of the The New York Herald Tribune
- 1969 - "Pfc. Gibson Comes Home" by John Fetterman of The Courier-Journal
Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence edit
- 1932 - "The Country's Plight—What Can Be Done About It?" by Charles G. Ross of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing edit
- 1917 - "The Lusitania Anniversary", editorial from Frank H. Simonds of the New York Tribune
- 1918 - "Vae Victis!" and "War Has Its Compensations", editorials by Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal
- 1919 - No award
- 1920 - "Law and the Jungle", editorial by Harvey E. Newbranch of the Evening World Herald
- 1921 - No award
- 1922 - "The Unknown Soldier", editorial by Frank M. O'Brien of the New York Herald
- 1923 - "To an Anxious Friend", editorial by William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette (Kansas)
- 1924 - "Who Made Coolidge?", editorial by Frank W. Buxton (Wikidata item) of the Boston Herald
- 1925 - "The Plight of the South", editorial by Robert Lathan of the Charleston News and Courier
- 1926 - "The House of a Hundred Sorrows", editorial by Edward M. Kingsbury of the New York Times
- 1927 - "We Submit", editorial by F. Lauriston Bullard of the Boston Herald
- 1929 - "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery", editorial by Louis Isaac Jaffe of The Virginian-Pilot
- 1931 - "The Gentleman From Nebraska", editorial by Charles S. Ryckman of the Fremont Tribune
- 1934 - "Where Is Our Money?", editorial by Edwin Percy Chase of the Atlantic News-Telegraph
- 1939 - "My Country 'Tis of Thee", editorial by Ronald G. Callvert of The Oregonian
- 1946 - "Go for Broke", editorial by Hodding Carter of The Delta Democrat-Times
- 1951 - "Government by Treaty", series of editorials by William H. Fitzpatrick of the New Orleans States
- 1952 - "Low Estate of Public Morals", editorial by Louis LaCoss of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
- 1955 - "An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly", editorial by Royce Howes of the Detroit Free Press
- 1956 - "If the Russians Want More Meat...", editorial by Lauren K. Soth of the Des Moines Register
- 1957 - "What A Price For Peace", editorial by Buford Boone of the Tuscaloosa News
- 1959 - "A Church, A School", editorial by Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution
- 1960 - "The Year Virginia Closed the Schools" and "The Year Virginia Opened the Schools", editorials by Lenoir Chambers of the Virginian-Pilot
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning edit
See Category:Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoons at Wikimedia Commons
Pulitzer Prize for Photography edit
See Category:Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs at Wikimedia Commons
Pulitzer Prize for Newspaper History edit
Letters & drama categories edit
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel edit
- 1917 - No award
- 1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole (Commons file)
- 1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
- 1920 - No award
- 1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- 1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Commons file)
- 1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather
- 1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Commons file)
- 1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber (Project Gutenberg)
- 1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (prize was declined)
- 1927 - Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
- 1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- 1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
Pulitzer Prize for Drama edit
- 1917 - No award
- 1918 - Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams (transcription project)
- 1919 - No award
- 1920 - Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill
- 1921 - Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
- 1922 - Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
- 1923 - Icebound by Owen Davis (Project Gutenberg)
- 1924 - Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes IA
- 1925 - They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard IA
- 1926 - Craig's Wife by George Kelly (external scan)
- 1927 - In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green (external scan)
- 1928 - Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill
Pulitzer Prize for History edit
- 1917 - With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand
- 1918 - A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
- 1919 - No award
- 1920 - The War with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith
- 1921 - The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
- 1922 - The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
- 1923 - The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
- 1924 - The American Revolution—A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain (Commons file)
- 1925 - History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson IA
- 1926 - A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865) by Edward Channing IA
- 1927 - Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis IA
- 1928 - Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington IA 1, IA 2
- 1929 - The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861—1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (external scans (multiple parts): v. 1, v. 2)
- 1935 - The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (only volume 1 is out of copyright) (external scan)
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography edit
- 1917 - Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall (Commons file)
- 1918 - Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce IA
- 1919 - The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
- 1920 - The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge (Project Gutenberg)
- 1921 - The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward W. Bok
- 1922 - A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (Commons file)
- 1923 - The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, vols. 1 & 2 by Burton Jesse Hendrick (Project Gutenberg: vol. 1, vol. 2)
- 1924 - From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael I. Pupin (Commons file)
- 1925 - Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe IA
- 1926 - The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing (external scan: vol. 1, vol. 2)
- 1927 - Whitman by Emory Holloway IA
- 1928 - The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell IA
- 1929 - The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton Jesse Hendrick (external scan)
- 1932 - Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography by Henry F. Pringle (external scan)
- 1938 - Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott by Odell Shepard (external scan)
- 1944 - The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse by Carleton Mabee
- 1952 - Charles Evans Hughes, 2 vols. by Merlo J. Pusey (external scan: vol. 1, vol. 2)
- 1955 - The Taft Story by William S. White
- 1959 - Woodrow Wilson: American Prophet by Arthur Walworth
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry edit
- 1918 - Love Songs by Sara Teasdale (special citation)
- 1919 - Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg and Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer (special citations)
- 1920 - No award
- 1921 - No award
- 1922 - Collected Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson (transcription project)
- 1923 - "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver", A Few Figs from Thistles (transcription project), and "Eight Sonnets" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 1924 - New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost
- 1925 - The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1926 - What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell (external scan)
- 1927 - Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer (external scan)
- 1928 - Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1929 - John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét (transcription project)