1926 Pulitzer Prize

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • Columbus Enquirer Sun, for the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching.
• Reporting:
  • William Burke Miller of Louisville Courier-Journal, for his work in connection with the story of the trapping in Sand Cave, Kentucky, of Floyd Collins.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Edward M. Kingsbury of The New York Times, for "The House of a Hundred Sorrows".

• Editorial Cartooning:
  • D. R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today".

Letters and Drama Awards

• Novel:
  • Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt (publisher)) (declined)
• Drama:
  • Craig's Wife by George Kelly (Little, Brown and Company)
• History:
  • A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865) by Edward Channing (Macmillan Publishers)
• Biography or Autobiography:
  • The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing (Oxford University Press)
• Poetry:
  • What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

References

References

1. (May 4, 1926). "'Skeets' Miller wins $1,000 Pulitzer Prize for Courier-Journal Collins stories". The Courier-Journal.
2. (May 4, 1926). "Pulitzer awards in arts and letters for 1925 announced; work of Post-Dispatch cartoonist declared best of the year". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.